Tanım
•Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mit, Brechstange.
Etimoloji
Literally, “with the crowbar”. Fully lexicalized by 1990. A possible link between ad-hoc metaphor and lexicalization is in describing football strategy, starting in the 1970s, where the metaphor (prying open the opposing team's defense by attacking very aggressively) came to be understood implicitly, compare the 1976 quotation.