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Discover LudwigThe word 'whacking' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it in informal contexts to mean 'a large amount' or 'a severe blow'. For example: "I got a whacking fine for parking in the wrong place".
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Do they get a sexual thrill from their leather glove whacking a Lycra-clad backside?
"That's either chasing a load of voles around all day or whacking a grouse every two days".
"I mean, you've seen things – clips in Brazil and Argentina when players have got sticks and they're whacking people, bang!
But the figures and rhetoric he has produced, committing the government to whacking year-on-year increases in spending on the National Health Service, suggest otherwise.Can the NHS take it?So Mr Brown does seem to be taking real risks.
But there is no moral imperative for whacking Cypriot widows and leaving senior bank bondholders untouched, as appears to be the case here; or not imposing any losses on sovereign-debt investors in Cyprus; or protecting depositors in the Greek operations of Cypriot banks, as has also happened.
They stress that, before whacking Mr Gbagbo's forces last week, they got unanimous approval from the UN Security Council to take "all necessary means" to restore order.
The Spanish prime minister was elected three years ago after relentlessly whacking the incumbent Socialists with the stick of corruption.
Half of this would come from slashing benefits; the rest would come from whacking the budgets of departments, such as justice and the police, which, under the current Tory-led government, have already been much reduced.
"Don't look out of the window!" cried an Irish teacher at my primary school, whacking my arm with a ruler as I dreamed of escaping over the high holly hedges and the walls.
It was as if we discovered a magical sword in the woods and then went about confronting enemies by whacking them with the sheath.We can move past this intellectual limitation.
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Whack a mole, and you may find, across town, the mole whacking itself.
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