cheap shot

Yes, Trump animates his base with the ugly vitriol and cheap shots.

Baker: Please donate somebody that consistently intimidates opponents into not taking cheap shots at good Kraken players.

Old Kraken pal Martin Pospisil — he of ongoing cheap shots — avoided supplemental discipline after getting ejected again for leaving his feet on a dangerous check.

“I don’t even go there because there were other plays in that game, too, from the other team,” Cronin said, apparently alluding to cheap shots.

This in some ways can be seen as a cheap shot, easily levelled by any critic.