(v. t. & i.) To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Someone close to the trust told me in the autumn, "Both parties are bashing the BBC – it used to alternate – but the Tories may have done a bigger deal with [longstanding BBC foe Rupert] Murdoch than Labour did in the mid-90s.
(2) They complained that while in Washington Cameron launched another round of Brussels-bashing when he was supposed to be promoting the merits of a potential gamechanging trade pact between the EU and the US.
(3) Last week Lebedev posted photos from his Hampton Court bash on his personal LiveJournal blog .
(4) In the end, Miliband's measures have a psychological effect not dissimilar to the youth-bashing policies that have come before: student fees, cuts to the education maintenance allowance and housing benefit for the under-25s , and the prioritising of private landlords at the expense of affordable housing.
(5) But at least it was offering something positive, not just bashing the Tories, like everything else.” But for many, it was symbolic of a vague and complacent Labour campaign strategy that would, ultimately, doom them to one of their worst ever election defeats.
(6) There is the Usdaw reception in the Hilton on Sunday, the Communication Workers Union drinks on Monday and a Unison bash on Tuesday.
(7) They are the only party which has refused to be drawn into the immigrant-bashing competition with the others, and the only which proposes a vote in the general elections for EU citizens based on residency, rather than nationality.
(8) For example, it's fashionable to continually bash the Taliban regarding women, especially when a massive Western army has invaded, but remain silent over women who suffer under Western foreign policies (I posted a link of a young Syrian woman being strangled in public, but it was deleted instantly).
(9) Swing your gaze from the aged and infirm to your fit and healthy peers here and abroad embracing fascism and poor-bashing.
(10) But Panmure's Zonneveld isn't so bashful - - he's got a target price of 570p.
(11) Jindal bashed the debate moderators to a crowd of roughly 50, saying: “The mainstream media lost the debate.” He went on to say that the GOP should take “a free market approach” to debates and “have as many debates as possible and let candidates decide which ones they should go to”.
(12) OFFICE COST PER DESK $10,430 pa Banker-bashing rating ■ ZURICH PROS The financial sector accounts for 6% of all jobs in Switzerland and 16% of tax revenue.
(13) If it means bashing your head against the wall, or whatever.
(14) I thought bashing bureaucrats was purely my domain.
(15) Theresa May has been accused of irresponsible “civil service bashing” by the mandarins’ union after using an interview to criticise Whitehall staff.
(16) But I will also defend my record, and will not take lectures on “the politics of division” from parties that bash immigrants and those on welfare benefits, or from politicians disgraced by expenses scandals, discredited by lies told to justify war, and intent on scapegoating the vulnerable in our society for an economic crisis caused by the most powerful.
(17) Downing Street has refused to release the guest list for this year's bash at the private Hurlingham members' club in Fulham, west London, but the gleaming Rolls-Royces and Jaguars streaming through the gates gave a hint of the wealthy passengers heading inside.
(18) Capitalism took a bashing in 2015: Corbynomics , the rise of anti-austerity parties Podemos and Syriza, Hillary Clinton slamming our culture of short-termism, COP21 protests and more.
(19) For many years afterwards, the family bashed their heads against a brick wall of indifference and worse.
(20) Debate moderators Anderson Cooper, Dana Bash, and Juan Carlos Lopez are sure to ask some tough questions of the candidates.
Bish
Definition:
(n.) Same as Bikh.
Example Sentences:
(1) Now he's finished Bish Bosch, which he considers to be the final instalment in a trilogy, is he going to work on something completely different?
(2) Yes, we all understood that he was the metaphorical Naked Chef because of the pared down bish-bash-bosh style of cookery, but he might as well genuinely have got his kit off for all the difference it made.
(3) Look, I admit, I do think Bish Bosch is amazing, but I'm not going to sit down and listen to it for hours on end.
(4) As Labour said itself – without humour, obviously – “Some people said we were going to come fifth.” Our business today is with the Tories and their Punchline of State, who seems to have made another diplomatic bish.
(5) Joining us to discuss these issues are Professor Jim McCaul , a head and neck cancer specialist at Bradford Royal Infirmary, and Justin Hancock , who runs the Bish Training sex and relationships education website.
(6) I am able to ignore his irritating affectations and pretence at being bish-bosh working class.
(7) "I started thinking about Bish Bosch, and it means sorted or job done.
(8) Jane Duffield-Bish Norwich • Fifteen years ago, as a police constable, I countersigned a passport application for a resident.
(9) His latest album, Bish Bosch, is only his third in 17 years, all of them elaborate, epic and inaccessible.
(10) Whatever Bish Bosch is about, Hieronymus Bosch seems a suitable muse – for this is a vision of hell on Earth, with tiny pockets of hope and humour.
(11) On Bish Bosch, he says, he was just as hard on the man playing the ram's horn.
(12) Otherwise, not really 1.19pm BST Justin Hancock , who runs the Bish Training sex and relationships education website, is also taking part in the webchat.