The workers took matters into their own hands, using a blunt instrument to beat the rat into submission. The rat was DOA.

[That] is why we're using them, to be perfectly blunt.

He took offense to that. I don't know if it was a male or a female, (but) they beat the living daylights out of me with their flippers. Instead of taking a picture, everyone just stood there and laughed.

We can talk until we're blue in the face, but the fact is that it's a blunt instrument, ... The RPI is just one of a great many tools that we use.

We can talk until we're blue in the face, but the fact is that it's a blunt instrument. The RPI is just one of a great many tools that we use.

It's a very blunt instrument, especially in a highly charged political atmosphere.