# Iron (metaphor)

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
* Joseph LaFlesche, 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

* Iron Bird (disambiguation)
* Iron Butterfly (disambiguation)
* Iron Dragon (disambiguation)
* Iron Eagle (disambiguation)
* Iron Monkey (disambiguation)
* Iron Wolf (disambiguation)
* Iron horse (disambiguation)
* Iron wood (disambiguation)
* Ferrocalamus (iron bamboo)
* Iron cobra, a "construct" in the game Dungeons & Dragons
* Iron condor, an option trading strategy utilizing two vertical spreads
* Iron Kong, a fictional character from the science fiction media franchise Zoids

### Body parts

* Iron Fist (disambiguation)
* Iron Hand (disambiguation)
* Iron Hands (disambiguation)
* Iron lung (disambiguation)
* See Joseph LaFlesche
* The Iron Heel, a 1908 dystopian novel
* Iron Palm, a body of training techniques in various Chinese martial arts

### Geography

* Iron City (disambiguation)
* Iron Mountain (disambiguation)
* Iron River (disambiguation)
* Iron Range, regions around Lake Superior in the United States and Canada

### 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

## Gallery

* The Iron Duke
* The Iron Chancellor
* Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady
* An Iron Duke engine
* An iron lung
* Big iron, an IBM z800 2066 mainframe
* "Big Iron" or Colt Python
* Iron Range in Minnesota
* The Iron Curtain in modern-day Germany