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take (or get) a pounding, pounding the pavement, pee, wee, diaper, weeshy, peewee

The Islamic State has been the richest terror organisation in history
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Team Obama Runs the Offense

Despite the week's market rally, Obama's team isn't taking chances. It's pounding the pavement to talk up its economic fix




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From the Fringe | 15.10.2008

Power of Pee Keeps Klitschko's Fists Pounding

Medical practitioners of both the holistic and traditional varieties have long used urine for treatment purposes, but boxer Vitali Klitschko may have devised a brand new therapy with the help of his son's wet diapers.

While treatments with names like "the urine cure" and "urine therapy" tout the liquid's cleansing characteristics -- with some even praising it as a cure for nearly every malady -- Ukrainian boxer Vitali Klitschko had practical demands for the waste product.
He used his son's wet diapers to help keep his fists from swelling up after winning his WBC heavyweight title match against Nigeria's Samuel Peter, Klitschko told German mass-market daily Bild on Tuesday, Oct. 14.
"Baby wee is good because it's pure, doesn't contain toxins and doesn't smell," the 37-year-old boxer told the paper after winning the title bout on Saturday.
"I wrap diapers filled with my three-year-old son Max's wee around my fists," he said, adding that the idea originated with his grandmother. "The nappies hold the liquid and the swelling stays down."
DW staff (sms)

Definition of pounding in English:

noun

[MASS NOUN]
1Repeated and heavy striking or hitting of someone or something:the pounding of the surf on a sandy beach
1.1Rhythmical beating or throbbing:all she could hear was the pounding of her heart

Phrases

take (or get) a pounding
Be repeatedly hit or attacked:the town took a hell of a pounding from the Luftwaffefigurative shares took a pounding this month

dia・per[ dipr | di- ]
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[名]

1 ((米))(赤ん坊の)おむつ(((英))nappy)

change a baby's diapers
おしめを替える

a diaper cover
おむつカバー

a disposable diaper
使い捨てのおむつ.

2 [U]ひし形などの小柄模様を織り込んだリンネル.

━━[動](他)

1 ((米))〈赤ん坊に〉おむつを当てる;…のおむつを替える.

2 …をダイヤモンド小柄模様で装飾する.

3 …に変化をつける.

[中フランス語←ギリシャ語diacuteaspros(dia-まったく+aacutespros白い). おむつは白い布で作られた]


pee Show phonetics
verb [I or T]
INFORMAL FOR urinate

pee Show phonetics
noun INFORMAL
1 [U] urine

2 [S] when you urinate:
I must go for/must have a pee.
wee (URINATE) Show phonetics
verb [I] (ALSO wee-weeINFORMAL OR CHILD'S WORD
to urinate:
Daddy, I want to wee!

wee Show phonetics
noun
1 [C usually singular] (ALSO wee-weeINFORMAL
"God, I need a wee!" she said.
CHILD'S WORD Do you need/want (to do) a wee-wee before we go out?

2 [U] urine

adj.we·erwe·est.
  1. Very small; tiny. See synonyms at small.
  2. Very early: the wee hours of the morning.
n. Scots.
A short time; a little bit.
[Middle English wei, we, a small amount, small, from Old English wǣge, wēg, weight.]

weeshy 同"小"

peewee
The noun has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1: disparaging terms for small people
Synonyms: runtshrimphalf-pint
Meaning #2: small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America
Synonyms: peweepeewitpewitwood peweeContopus virens


pound the pavement

Walk the streets, especially in search of employment. For example, He was fired last year and he's been pounding the pavement ever since. A similar usage is pound a beat, meaning "to walk a particular route over and over"; it is nearly always applied to a police officer. [Early 1900s]

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