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whipping post::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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Examples of whipping post
whipping post
For 36 years Farnes was Milligan's agent, manager, confidante and whipping post.
From the express.co.uk
The University of Kentucky has become his favorite whipping post lately.
From the courier-journal.com
When you're an American abroad, you can quickly become a whipping post.
From the dallasnews.com
Its cool interior brandishes statues of a gaunt, bleeding Christ, en route to Calvary or tied to the whipping post.
From the independent.co.uk
As a formal matter, most states did away with debtors prisons in the early 1800s, along with the whipping post.
From the stltoday.com
The central pillar is the old whipping post.
From the edp24.co.uk
In the village of Bradwell-on-Sea, look out for the whipping post, used in times past for the administration of corporal punishment on drunks.
From the independent.co.uk
The second time he was to pay treble damages, sit for an hour upon the gallows platform with a noose around his neck and then be carted to the whipping post for thirty stripes.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Not only is Freddie Mac a longtime conservative whipping post, but the extent of his consultancy for the mortgage giant seemed to be at odds with his own statements about his work there.
From the sacbee.com
