All these people needed a boot up the backside at regular intervals to keep them up to scratch.

What is needed there is someone who will give the minister a boot up the backside in freeing school heads from local authority control.

A struggling Swan was summarily ejected, helped on by a boot up the backside on the part of the Party's chief agent.

Maybe Sayle's comeback will help give the scene the good old-fashioned Doctor Martens boot up the backside it is sorely beginning to need.

On the dole, boots up the backside from Norman and coach Ron Roddan - and positive advice from his beloved granny when undecided about taking athletics seriously at last.

Young Pompey wasn't there to shield him, and Sextus Pompey despised him to the point of casual abuse-cuffs across the ear, boots up the backside, a foot to trip him up as he hurried about.