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punching bag

拳击袋,搏击袋,拳击包,搏击包

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an inflated or stuffed bag, usually suspended, punched with the fists as an exercise.
    • : Informal. a person serving as an object of abuse; scapegoat: I told him that I wasn't going to be a punching bag for anyone.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • So this is Kendall Roy, once the family golden boy and now the punching bag.

  • If they had managed to hold that lead over the Rams, it would have made him far less of a punching bag.

  • “We’re just human punching bags,” the nurse, Jesse Telford, told a Boston TV station.

  • For however long, if not forever, Nielsen’s panel has been a punching bag for both TV networks and TV advertisers to complain that they were the ones getting a raw deal.

  • Antoine himself had recently been arrested on a six-year-old warrant for a dime bag of weed.

  • Elle magazine shot an editorial in September, one picture revealing a teacup pig sitting pretty by a mini Tyler Alexandra bag.

  • “Which proves he is as dumb as a bag of hammers,” the official says.

  • They were allowed to bring one bag per family, which most fill with food.

  • He kept it in a brown paper bag stashed in the bathroom of his office.

  • Drone: the largest tube of a bag-pipe, giving forth a dull heavy tone.

  • It beats punching cows, though—that is, when a fellow discovers that he isn't a successful cowpuncher.

  • I shall only be away for six months; you know I have made up my mind to get rid of the whole bag of tricks.

  • I'd have enjoyed punching his proud head, for all that; it was a dirty way to serve a man who had done his level best.

  • Thank you for nothing, Reginald; however, I shall certainly take a dip in the lucky-bag at the Castle.