sparring partner

Can she push her own messaging and policy ideas to the fore when her sparring partner is renowned for quashing substantive discourse in a barrage of insults, lies and red herrings?

They have turned to friendly hackers to probe their cyberdefenses, like boxers who use sparring partners to ready them for a championship fight.

As the votes are in, we are now hearing reaction from other Senedd members - and first up is his new verbal sparring partner.

In more ways than one, Bairstow is the great survivor of English cricket and there is genuine affection towards him from all areas of the game, even if he is the media's punchiest sparring partner.

Me and the other sparring partners would huddle up, plotting and planning on how to take him down.