(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.
Slobber
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) See Slabber.
(n.) See Slabber.
(n.) A jellyfish.
(n.) Salivation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Five bouncing boys, who eagerly lick Paul Ryan's face and slobber all over his jacket, as per the Onion .
(2) Six dogs, six cats, rabbits and white rats make up a menagerie of slobbering, purring affection, punctuated by squawks from the geese as they flee the Rottweiler.
(3) The signs, treatment, and prevention of several conditions, such as leukoencephalomalacia, aflatoxicosis, ergotism, fescue toxicity, slobbering disease, ryegrass staggers, and moldy sweet clover disease, are discussed.
(4) There were many times during Sky1's Pineapple Dance Studios when I observed Andrew "I'm A Triple Threat" Stone mooing on about the unknowable margins of his talent and thought quietly to myself, "This show would be better if Andrew was being attacked by slobbering dogs, or having his innards ruptured by a professional wrestler, or simply having machetes fired at his silly face while he sings Steppenwolf's Born To Be Wild."
(5) Jeremy Corbyn’s critics were poised to attack, and pundits were slobbering at the mouth at the prospect.
(6) In fact it was the Sun newspaper slobbering "Alex Ferguson has declared it is 'Squeaky Bum Time' again".
(7) I was nudged by one of the taut, muscular bodies, scantily covered in its tiny red tartan cotton robe, and I had to make a decision: be a warrior by joining the front line to protect my tribe from a snorting, slobbering 500kg bitch of a buffalo, or stay on the sidelines by hustling up a tree to watch from above as the true warriors went to battle.
(8) Then, in case all this passed you by, along comes Cujo : and in the giant, slobbering, seemingly unstoppable dog, we find the bluntest metaphor for addiction yet presented in King's oeuvre (a title it would hold until Misery and The Tommyknockers ).