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whale away
Idioms and Phrases
Attack physically or verbally, as in Our boys whaled away at the enemy , or The talk-show host whaled away at the hostile critics . The word whale here does not allude to the ocean mammal, but means “flog” or “thrash.” [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
But “you’re supposed to be on a diet. And your diet is telling the economic narrative. And then you get to Trump in the general and then you whale away on him.”
One of the few that can be described in a family newspaper involves a simple premise: Strap on an athletic cup and let some person or thing whale away.
Mr Tripp said wooden sea defences would have to be removed to allow heavy machinery onto the beach to haul the whale away using a metal sledge.
Just whale away on him like a piñata?
Driving a whale away with noise from a lineup of boats worked in Australia’s Tasmania island state.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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