pound the table
verb1
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pound, the, table.
2
Figuratively To vehemently assert one's position.
3
Law Figuratively To base an argument on bluster or rhetoric when unsupported by more substantive elements.
- There's an old legal aphorism that goes, "If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither on your side, pound the table."
- Related terms
- tubthumping