(1) Small business gets clobbered by taxes and business rates, while big business turns around and says to the state: "This is how much tax I fancy paying this year, take it or leave it".
(2) Mark Cavendish, the flash "Manx Missile", who has won 25 stages of the Tour de France, thanks his "sprint train" with expensive watches and designer clobber when they lead him out to victory.
(3) 7.10pm BST Game and third set to Milos Raonic The Canadian clobbers an ace to take the game to love.
(4) This rhetoric has been dropped since he gained power and he now accepts that climate change is a problem worth tackling, provided it doesn’t “clobber jobs”.
(5) Ed Krell, the chief executive of US group Destination Maternity, has left to "pursue other opportunities", six weeks after he somehow saw an opportunity to bid for the UK baby clobber chain.
(6) I wanted not to give the impression of ‘here I come, surrounded by the security detail, out of the big white car with journos hanging off my every word, I’m so powerful’ – I actually wanted to give the impression to people that despite all the eccentric clobber that’s around me, we can have a conversation.
(7) All three of the city's branches of the Strenesse fashion chain, stockists of official Nationalmannschaft clobber, have run out of the slinky kashmir number (just €299 to you), and there's now a waiting list, but new stocks aren't expected until August."
(8) After a 4-0 clobbering by Germany in their opening game, manager Paulo Bento had been candid enough to admit that anything less than a victory over the USA would effectively spell the end for his team.
(9) But then the morning comes with a story about a clobbered gay man.
(10) Women nipped about on mopeds in summer frocks instead of the usual leather clobber; sales of bikes and scooter below the 125cc limit - which allowed you unlimited travel if you had L-plates - went up by a quarter.
(11) I then came across an ebook by Mary Elizabeth Croft, How I Clobbered every Cash Confiscatory Bureau .
(12) What the experts say: TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady: An early interest rate rise would clobber mortgage holders and businesses – jeopardising our economic recovery.
(13) Jack Wilshere felt his ankle after a tackle from Mehmet Topal; Wojciech Szczesny was caught late by Moussa Sow and suffered scratches to his neck while Per Mertesacker was clobbered by an elbow from Bruno Alves, for which the Fenerbahce player was booked.
(14) The big fear is that consumers, especially the majority of homeowners with floating-rate mortgages, will be clobbered if the Bank of England feels compelled to raise interest rates.
(15) Those stands were awash with sunlight and yellow clobber as the crowd generated a cheery hubbub aimed at helping their team to climb out of its predicament.
(16) Add in high oil prices, falling house prices in countries such as Spain and Ireland, plus last month's interest rate rise from the European Central Bank, and you have a toxic mix that is clobbering an economic area which until recently was proud of being less exposed than Britain to the credit crunch.
(17) Here, clobber, shoes and jewellery are on the menu, complete with a Tinder-style swiping system to like or reject individual items.
(18) Small properties in London would be clobbered, but "mansions" (by comparison) would seem like tax havens.
(19) There was no need for him to point to misfortune here, as his team fully deserved their clobbering.
(20) Thus the Labour leader realised his speech would see him clobbered from the Labour right and the Labour left in unholy unprecedented alliance.
Clubber
Definition:
(n.) One who clubs.
(n.) A member of a club.
Example Sentences:
(1) He is seeing clubbers with their hands in the air again: "In the dubstep era everyone just stood there and nodded their heads.
(2) The survey found that, among clubbers who reported having taken ecstasy within the past month, three quarters had also taken mephedrone – known in the media as "meow meow" – within the same period.
(3) The crowd is as tightly packed as the front row of a gig, with clubbers on each other's shoulders.
(4) The Telegraph reports : "Brighton was criticised for its 'right-on' attitudes, awful parking and clubbers wearing garish outfits.
(5) Surveys suggest that gay clubbers take more drugs than the general population, but Measham said her findings may be indicative of wider trends in substance abuse.
(6) But Bonnie's death cemented Lord's view that he had a duty to keep clubbers as safe as possible.
(7) There is a striking sign that greets clubbers on the way in to Manchester's Warehouse Project – once they have ignored the big yellow amnesty box where they've been advised to post any illegal substances, and run the gauntlet of the club's 100 security staff and some eager sniffer dogs.
(8) The importance of this room really dawned on me,” he says of how Plastic’s People inspired a generation of dancefloor-focused clubbers, as well as himself.
(9) He bounced between out-there clubbers and the suburban devout, between hanging out in orgies and having a mostly unconsummated relationship with his Christian girlfriend (they would hand out vegan sandwiches to homeless people for thrills).
(10) Clubbers are being warned about a heightened risk of overdosing on ecstasy, amid evidence that the purity of the drug has increased to potentially dangerous levels.
(11) It's the sort of scenario clubbers like to speculate about, usually at around 6am, a little the worse for wear after a big night out.
(12) Among those contributing to the creative economy are the hundreds of British (who top the list of tourist numbers) and other European clubbers attracted by Berlin's 250 nightclubs.
(13) Nevertheless, they sold 130,000 records to clubbers hypnotised - or deafened into submission - by the boom.
(14) Clubbers are regularly taking the former legal high mephedrone alongside ecstasy and cocaine, a trend that experts warn could have grave health implications.
(15) Judging by the many clips on YouTube, its stars have taken their cues from rock stars rather than the clubbers who helped to create dance culture around the skill of DJs such as Frankie Knuckles .
(16) The research found that polydrug use was now the norm among clubbers, who are happy to mix legal, newly banned and established illegal club drugs.
(17) Now, following the clubbing explosion at the end of the 80s and two subsequent decades of partying, fatigue was setting in, with many clubbers put off by expensive tickets and the decline of the free party scene.
(18) Clubbers flock here twice a year for the Caister Soul Weekenders, which have been running for more than 30 years (next one 1-3 October).
(19) For some clubbers, the spirit of the late 80s and early 90s is gone and will never return.
(20) I do hope the grudging tone comes across however: giving a year and a half of prison time to a clubber who bought 20 ecstasy pills and split them with a friend (the guideline "starting point" the council recommends) remains an act of stupidity.