touchstone: 기준, 시금석
a basic principle for judging quality:Perfect service is the touchstone of a fine restaurant.
an established standard or principle by which something is judged:Until relatively recently, the Japanese car industry was the touchstone of international success.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------to obtain something with difficulty, effort, or violence:Shareholders will try to wrest control of the company from the current management.
to violently pull something away from someone:He wrested the letter from my grasp.
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