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pound of flesh

n. pl. pounds of flesh

A debt harshly insisted upon.

[From Antonio's debt to Shylock in The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare.]

pound of flesh

something that is one's legal right but is an unreasonable demand (esp in the phrase to have one's pound of flesh)

[from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (1596), Act IV, scene i]

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