hammer and sickle

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   the emblem on the flag of the Soviet Union

   Broaderemblem

Questions about hammer and sickle

What does hammer and sickle mean?

hammer and sickle means "the emblem on the flag of the Soviet Union".

Is hammer and sickle a common word?

hammer and sickle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.