What's the difference between fisticuffs and haymaker?
Fisticuffs
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) I've spent a most enjoyable evening with the redoubtable Professor Elemental, who as you know is not averse to a bit of fisticuffs himself .
(2) Perhaps Mrs Patmore would get her hand stuck in the new electric mixer, or footmen Alfred and Jimmy's rivalry would come to a head with some gloves-off fisticuffs – certainly not the brutal rape of lady's maid and viewers' favourite Anna Bates .
(3) It is unheard of for the Bank to get involved in such verbal fisticuffs.
(4) It was only when he had a bout of fisticuffs with his deputy of 17 years, Adam Helliker, whose coming departure for a column of his own Dempster regarded as a betrayal, and when he faced another drink-driving charge (a previous conviction had been quashed on appeal) that his world began seriously to implode.
(5) Five cases (six eyes) of retinal detachment due to fisticuffs are recorded; at least four eyes went blind.
(6) He did not want to get into fisticuffs with Mitt," he said.
(7) Fight Club seemed all fisticuffs and buff Brad Pitt, then slyly indicted the lifestyle of a generation.
(8) While it never amounted to fisticuffs, this lairy threat has been repeated in different forms at regular intervals throughout the past 13 years of Williams's career, depleting slightly in its extremity as each album campaign gets churned out.
(9) 12.19pm BST Verbal fisticuffs between Labour's Chris Bryant and economic secretary Sajid Javid .
(10) We are all used to the sort of annual fisticuffs at press awards, and all the shouting matches, and we all hate each other."
(11) A patient with osteomyelitis of the distal right first metacarpal bone due to Actinomyces israelii following a punch injury during fisticuffs is described.
(12) But no amount of political fisticuffs could have prepared him for breaking up fights, trying to persuade students who "couldn't sit still for more than five minutes" to write essays, or, in one memorable incident, dealing with a teenager who was threatening to climb out of a window, six floors up.
(13) It’s not like this in real life – but how would you know?” Undeterred by protests about his infringement of copyright, Trump uses Jerry Goldsmith’s embattled but rousingly brassy music from the film to underscore his campaign appearances, and when he arrived in Cleveland for the Republican convention in July he was greeted by the fanfares that accompany Ford’s gung-ho bouts of fisticuffs with the hijackers.
(14) After fisticuffs in parliament the Italians have agreed on a package of the economic reforms demanded by EU leaders .
(15) Each one of us must shoulder some of the responsibility for Falkirk MP Eric Joyce's allegedly drunken fisticuffs, because it is we who subsidise the drinks in the Houses of Parliament, and therefore we who must acknowledge our role in the cheap booze culture that MPs have rightly observed is shaming Britain.
(16) But let's not pretend that fisticuffs are a regular feature of the Palace of Westminster.
(17) But these exchanges rarely culminate in fisticuffs.
(18) The catfight didn't stop there, with proper fisticuffs breaking out, giving Charity the opportunity to feign a miscarriage.
Haymaker
Definition:
(n.) One who cuts and cures hay.
(n.) A machine for curing hay in rainy weather.
Example Sentences:
(1) During sowing and haymaking, the total concentrations of dust were also high occasionally.
(2) Garcia tries a sweeping right hand, but Matthysse leans away comfortably and avoids the haymaker.
(3) Haymaker & Kernohan solidified the features of the acute disorder as did Dyck et al and Prineas & McLeod for the relapsing and chronic conditions.
(4) A rainy haymaking period calls for artificial drying of hay in order to reduce the incidence of farmer's lung.
(5) It’s got the heart of a bull and the subtlety of a haymaker.
(6) Cilic lines up another of his haymaker forehands, but the ball drops just wide and the Serb moves 3-2 up on serve.
(7) Last week Bramson, the activist investor, threw a lot of punches but missed with his intended haymaker by failing to say how “more than” £1bn of value could be realised.
(8) Matthysse then goes back to the one big punch theory with a huge right haymaker that looks comical as it misses Garcia by a mile.
(9) But if the top players really must get themselves idiotically suspended for the next leg, then let's see some proper old-school haymaker throwing, please, no half measures.
(10) As punches go, it was a short, low swing, rather than an old-fashioned haymaker, but the television cameras pick up everything these days and the likelihood is a Football Association charge of violent conduct.
(11) It’s a risky strategy and without new recruits they’ll probably still go down, but their fans would probably prefer to see them do so while on the front foot swinging haymakers.
(12) The incidence of farmer's lung was positively correlated with measures of daily rainfall and negatively correlated with days without rainfall and with sunshine during the haymaking period preceding the diagnosis.