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Meanings of clout in English
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Examples for "punch"
Examples for "punch"
1
Such a three-punch crisis combo of health, financial and economic is new.
2
The trailer does, however, punch home one potential problem for the film-makers.
3
Acer makes some great budget monitors that punch above their price point.
4
Nations of four million are simply not supposed to punch this strongly.
5
I considered what she'd just said-notthe story about the honeydew punch-out
1
So far, I'm the only one who's done a lick of work.
2
I never saw either one of them do a lick of work.
3
As he watches, fire begins to lick free of the engine block.
4
Don't you remember how you used to love to lick on it?
5
Beggar turned at the door and got in his lick of revenge.
1
Poppy had started using her pencil to poke holes in her paper.
2
Then they can poke out their long, sticky arms and snag food.
3
I gave him a fast hard poke that couldn't have felt good.
4
I read the letter and poke it into the stove, and proceed.
5
Kids at school and opposing sporting teams would 'poke' fun at me.
1
Have they ensured poisonous slug pellets are not used in the area?
2
These results suggest an association between ERK-regulated cell migration and slug expression.
3
Fabrizzio handed him a wine bottle and Michael took a long slug.
4
I shudder, thinking about the size of the slug it would've produced.
5
Perhaps it couldn't penetrate fast enough to slug you all at once.
1
You was right in his arms, and you hadda go an' biff him.
2
It was biff-biff, and biff again, but not nip and tuck for long.
3
Say it once again, and I'll biff you where you stand.
4
I miss a signal, big stick butts against something solid; biff!
5
When you biff me into the corner I can come bouncing back for more.
1
Ireland and Scotland were about to set to; Erin was going to fisticuff Gajothel.
2
I'm tired o' being a kick-a-toe and fisticuff to everybody.
3
He was not without skill at fisticuff, was Hackley.
4
This kick and fisticuff amused Louis Bonaparte.
5
As folk fleece and fisticuff in street.
Usage of clout in English
1
Put simply, they believe that serious transfer market clout will be theirs.
2
Others worry U.S. military clout may ultimately be used to seize resources.
3
They also have clout as major investors in oil and coal companies.
4
They long ago lost the numbers but they never lost their clout.
5
And of course asylum seekers have no economic and social clout whatever.
6
However, the fewer investors attend, the greater clout the rebels will have.
7
It has more clout and it's six days a week, he added.
8
China, meanwhile, appears to be wielding ever-greater economic clout over North Korea.
9
Obama's modest second-term agenda so far illustrates his diminished clout in Washington.
10
But the women's real prize is their new clout as local celebrities.
11
There's safety, and greater clout, in numbers when negotiating with aggrieved investors.
12
For most of the post-war era, their political clout kept subsidies flowing.
13
You've got enough clout at this point that they probably have to.
14
It's my office, my control, but Agent Bell packs major Beltway clout.
15
We have a lot of political clout and sophistication for the battle.
16
They hope to become CEOs themselves and have that kind of clout.
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Clout through the time
Clout across language varieties
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Less common