an expression: hammer lock

[Lost_Soul]

Hi,

Have you ever come across this expression: a hammer lock away from.... Do you use it frequently? (Mrs Google gave me only 1 hit for this phrase)

I heard it in this context (from a movie "Married with children")

[Yankee]

Hi Alex

I don't use that particular term and I don't think it's too common in everyday usage. But I would guess that people familiar with wrestling, for example, might be more prone to using it.

By the way, most dictionaries seem to spell that as one word:
http://www.bartleby.com/61/76/H0037600.html
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[Lost_Soul]

Hi, Amy

Thanks!

PS: Silly me ! I hadn't though of spelling it as one word, but now that I did it, it turned out that my dictionary has a definition for it. Furthermore, there is exactly the same word in russian (e.g. it sounds like hammerlock). :lol: