Christmas in July seems like a Hallmark Channel invention. But it actually has its roots in a pretty surprising source.

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Sledgehammer ’s reputation as the killing machine of tools eventually resulted in a figurative usage: When a response appears to be out of proportion to a problem and will likely cause more harm than ...