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Meanings of punchbag in inglês

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Ball game.

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        1
        An' I've got a dormouse, an' a punchball, an' a box of things, an' a football, but they wouldn't let me bring them, bitterly.
        More William
        1
        I walked over to the heavy punching bag and started hitting it.
        My Fight/Your Fight
        2
        I just don't like seeing a kid used as a punching bag.
        Running scared
        3
        I'll need to find a new hobby, a new punching bag.
        Within arm's reach
        4
        Someone's used this kid as a punching bag for a very long time.
        Monday Mourning
        5
        Baron Waqa accused the foreign media of using Nauru as a punching bag.
        Radio NZ
        Usage of punchbag in inglês
        1
        Our punchbag sculpture uses humour to speak about something that is actually tragic.
        The Guardian
        2
        They should each have a punchbag and go crazy on it at home.
        The Guardian
        3
        I was doing Shakespeare and learning to do press-ups and routines on a punchbag.
        The Guardian
        4
        After such nonsense, surely there could be no life left in this serial punchbag?
        The Guardian
        5
        For exactly a quarter of a century Fukuyama has been a kind of intellectual punchbag.
        The Irish Times
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        In fact, it looked as if colleges had become Ofsted chief Michael Wilshaw's latest punchbag.
        The Guardian
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        But the motif on the punchbag could be anything you fear in a simplistic way.
        The Guardian
        8
        Her gaze found a rather delicious nineteen-year-old hammering his fists into a long leather punchbag.
        The Naked God
        9
        The outrage among American officials at being used as a punchbag by the Israelis was palpable.
        The Guardian
        10
        Try something new: yoga may be calming, but there's nothing more thrilling than pummelling a punchbag.
        The Irish Times
        11
        There was a punchbag for the teenagers to unleash frustration and several antique, broken Pac-Man machines.
        The Guardian
        12
        Five happy years into Dublin life, and I'm well used to being the punchbag for sporting banter.
        The Irish Times
        13
        Photograph: Courtesy the artists and Victoria Miro Why is there an EU flag on our Anger Management punchbag?
        The Guardian
        14
        Key's Yvan is first enlisted as an ally by the other two and then treated as a punchbag.
        The Guardian
        15
        Like any long-serving chancellor, he has been both the engine of electoral success and the punchbag in difficult times.
        The Guardian
        16
        Was Bradley a speech-slurring punchbag?
        The Guardian
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