Iron, when used metaphorically, refers to certain traits of the metal iron. Used as an adjective and sometimes as a noun, it refers to something stern, harsh, strong, unyielding, inflexible, rigid, sturdy, strong, robust, hard.
List of iron metaphors
Persons and characters
- Iron Duke (disambiguation)
- Iron Felix (disambiguation)
- Iron Lady (disambiguation)
- Iron Man (disambiguation)
- Iron Mike (disambiguation)
- Princess Iron Fan (disambiguation)
- Otto von Bismarck, known as the Iron Chancellor
- Iron Chef, a Japanese cooking show
- , known as Iron Eye
- Iron Eyes Cody, Sicilian-American actor
- The Iron Heinrich, a rough translation of the German fairy tale The Frog Prince
- Iron Heroes, a variant book of rules for the game Dungeons & Dragons
- Iron John, a German fairy tale
- Eon Kid, English title of the TV series Iron Kid
- Iron Lad, a fictional superhero
- Iron Maniac, an evil alternative universe character of fictional Marvel superhero Iron Man
- Iron Munro, a fictional superhero
- Persephone, known as the Iron Queen
- Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri, known as the Iron Sheik
- Iron Shell, Brule Sioux chief
- Iron Tail, Oglala Sioux warrior
- Tigran Petrosian, known as Iron Tigran
- Timur as a name, meaning iron in Turkic languages, widespread in Western and Central Asia since the days of the Mongol Empire
- Hadid is an Arabic name (both given and surname) literally meaning "iron"
Animals and plants
Body parts
Geography
Other iron metaphors
- Iron Bird (disambiguation)
- Iron Curtain (disambiguation)
- Iron Maiden (disambiguation)
- Iron Triangle (disambiguation)
- Unguided bomb, known as an iron bomb
- Iron Brigade, a Civil War brigade
- Iron cage, a sociology term
- Iron Fire, a Danish power and speed metal band
- Iron Guard, a historical far-right movement in Romania
- Iron harvest, an annual "harvest" collected by Belgian and French farmers after ploughing their fields
- Iron Helix, a 1993 video game
- Iron Seed, a 1994 DOS video game
- Iron shirt, a form of hard style martial art exercise
- Iron Sunrise, a 2004 hard science fiction novel
- Iron Will, a 1994 film
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