"Tres, Pietersen and Harmo need a firm kick up the ar$e, like wot Geraint got.
"You just make that door entry the goal," he said, giving the ball a firm kick kitchenward.
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Dressed in denim capris, a black-and-yellow striped T-shirt, and white loafers, she gave it a firm kick, and then a few more, but it wouldn't budge.
And Stevie – after watching Liam curl his lip disdainfully at the idea of a job in the wrong kind of retail – looked as if she thought he should get nothing but a firm kick up the backside from an Asda-brand trainer.
A French team who man-for-man looked to have all the attributes of an outstanding side but who, collectively, had about as much subtlety as a firm kick in the unmentionables from Alain Esteve or Laurent Rodriguez or any other one of their storied hard men of the past.
Some days you need a kind word, and other days you need a firm kick in the butt.
By dangling the money before states and issuing thinly-veiled threats to those that don't shape up, Duncan has given the U.S. education establishment a firm kick in the rear.
All of a sudden, standing there feeling sorry for her, but also wanting to give her a firm kick in the ass and say, "Boot this asshole," it hit me.
George Osborne, Britain's chancellor, foresaw a "march of the makers" as manufacturing firms kicked into action.
