Arafat's portrait was torn off office walls and smashed under the boots of the Islamist fighters of Hamas.
Any rose-tinted specs have been well and truly smashed under the fat hooves of an overworked, fleablown carthorse.
As we pulled in the driveway, the covering of stiff, dry leaves sounded like fine glass smashing under the tires.
When she sees evidence of fresh destruction by a neighbor, she calms herself by imagining him being smashed under a boulder.
Damien Pace, from the Young Liberal club at Macquarie University, was looking forward to the "PC prism" being smashed under a Trump presidency.
People were trapped in their houses, because the roofs had collapsed, chimneys had fallen, cars were smashed under trees, and water mains had broken.
Nearly all of the men in the video would be killed around 30 minutes later, their bodies smashed under house-sized chunks of ice that broke loose from the glacier and barreled down the ice field.
On Sunday, as several men with bandaged faces slept under their coats in the mosque and another group took part in midday prayers, I watched as others checked the circulation on a man whose legs had been smashed under a metal police barrier and probably broken, and were encased in a splint made from a cardboard box.
I'm instead worried about smaller chains in major cities – P.C. Richards, for example – being smashed under the weight of these behemoths.
Contrary to zombie films, suburbs are the first to be hit by downturns, the first to be smashed under tornadoes and other acts of god, and the primary generators of anger and fear.
