Chen Yi was a civil servant who had been tasked with helping the couple escape. One day, Ms. Chen looked up to see giant posters with his name on them: “Bash in Chen Yi’s Head and Boil Him in Oil!”
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A Bit of Caution Beneath the Thump
Temerity at the Top
By DAVID BROOKS
If we want to encourage more economic growth, we could start by not bashing the few super-ambitious people at the top.Stop bashing the business schools
Responses to certain defamatory accusations laid at the doors of business schools.
overdrive/ˈəʊvədrʌɪv/noun- 1.a gear in a motor vehicle providing a gear ratio higher than that of direct drive (the usual top gear), so that the engine speed can be reduced at high road speeds to lessen fuel consumption or to allow further acceleration.
- 2.a state of great or excessive activity."the city's worried public relations group went into overdrive"
verb- 1.give (an electric guitar) a distorted sound."cranking the volume up results in overdriving the bass"
- 2.drive or work to exhaustion."he says he did not overdrive the horses"
Responses to certain defamatory accusations laid at the doors of business schools.
- 1.a gear in a motor vehicle providing a gear ratio higher than that of direct drive (the usual top gear), so that the engine speed can be reduced at high road speeds to lessen fuel consumption or to allow further acceleration.
- 2.a state of great or excessive activity."the city's worried public relations group went into overdrive"
- 1.give (an electric guitar) a distorted sound."cranking the volume up results in overdriving the bass"
- 2.drive or work to exhaustion."he says he did not overdrive the horses"
bash-in phrasal verb - Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
bash (CRITICIZE)
verb [T]
to criticize someone severely:
He kept bashing local government officials.
-basher
suffix DISAPPROVING
union-basher someone who strongly criticizes trade unions and tries to limit their power
-bashing
suffix DISAPPROVING
union-bashing strong criticism of trade unions
Bible-basher
noun [C] (MAINLY US Bible-thumper) INFORMAL DISAPPROVING
someone who tries in a forceful or enthusiastic way to persuade other people to believe in the Christian religion and the Bible
Bible-bashing
adjective [before noun] (MAINLY US Bible-thumping)
She was born in the Bible-thumping Arkansas town of Lonoke.
n.
Offensive.
Used as a disparaging term for a Christian, especially a fundamentalist or evangelical Christian, considered to be overly zealous in haranguing or censuring others.
Bible thumper (also Bible beater, Bible basher, Bible humper) is a pejorative term used to describe Christians in general, especially someone perceived as aggressively pushing their Christian beliefs upon those who do not share them. Its target domain is broad and can often extend to anyone engaged in a public show of religion, fundamentalist or not.
The term alludes to a preacher thumping his hand hard down on the Bible to emphasize a point during a sermon.
- strike hard and violently."they bashed him over the head with a blunt object"
- noun party
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