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punching bag

noun as in boxing equipment

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So this is Kendall Roy, once the family golden boy and now the punching bag.

From Vox

If they had managed to hold that lead over the Rams, it would have made him far less of a punching bag.

“We’re just human punching bags,” the nurse, Jesse Telford, told a Boston TV station.

For however long, if not forever, Nielsen’s panel has been a punching bag for both TV networks and TV advertisers to complain that they were the ones getting a raw deal.

From Digiday

For instance, he points out, Charlemagne treated Saxony like his own personal punching bag.

He has become something of a critical punching bag of late, a thought that seemed impossible for most of his career.

Kardashian's most famous gig was as Paris Hilton's own closet organizer/punching bag/silent friend.

A punching bag as treasury secretary, Geithner finally gets to unload in ‘Stress Test.’

Walmart is clearly growing tired of being a punching bag and poster child for low wages.

You know my little two-room affair behind the chapel,—only a few books and a punching bag.

They were shoving some one here and there, making a punching bag of him, at the same time laughing uproariously.

Weighing about one hundred and thirty pounds my work upon the human punching bag was beginning to tell.

The punching-bag and other purely masculine paraphernalia had been banished to his own room, and the living-room, alas!

I made it into a tight bundle and hung it on a springy limb to use for a punching-bag.

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On this page you'll find 5 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to punching bag, such as: crazy bag, heavy bag, and speedbag.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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