The phrase "a bash at the" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to indicate an attempt or effort to do something, often in a casual or informal context.
Example: "I decided to have a bash at the new recipe I found online, hoping it would turn out well."
Alternatives: "a go at the" or "an attempt at the".
News reaches me that, during a bash at the Russian Embassy in London this week, the said brand made a surprise, but welcome, appearance.
This has doubtless been good practice for his next trick, which is to be having a bash at the real thing.
Last week the diamond retailer Mondera kicked off its Web site, Mondera.com, with a bash at the Havana Club at Top of the Sixes.
"Would you England had a bash at the total and fall 150 short or try to bat for a draw and fall well short?
On Wednesday night, a group of Philadelphia firms hosted a bash at the Hyde in the Bellagio hotel, while Baker Botts served sushi in a private room at the Mandarin Oriental.
Unsurprising, then, that the two main Iraqi Kurdish factions were fighting each other, with Turkish, Iraqi or Iranian support for one side or another, until last year, and stopped only to have a bash at the PKK.Furthermore, the memory of colonial carve-ups has left the Kurds' Turkish, Arab and Iranian rulers suspicious of any attempts to divide their populations or decentralise the state.
But Lars Leijonborg, whose Liberal Party took a bashing at the polls over a spying scandal late in the campaign, might welcome a change of scene, and the prestige of the foreign job, to crown his political career.
In which Emma Thompson sticks her face in a basin of silly putty and cat hair, then has a bash at explaining the physical spark-point of the universe to children?
"The experiments were things children could have a bash at and the fact there was no parent or teacher present added to the excitement.
They have a bash at being the Kaiser Chiefs, apeing their northern counterparts' runaway keyboard rhythms and agitated vocals, but can't match them either.
Stuart winds up at a bash at which the Victorian duke, whose family fortunes are in dire need of replenishment, is about to announce his engagement to a wealthy but unattractive American heiress.
