Blue-collar guy like this, try it in any other situation and you'd be cruising for a bruising.

'Somebody's cruising for a bruising,' I said to quiet them.

It struck him as cruising for a bruising.

You could see Merizo was cruising for a bruising the way he gunned away from the shed.

Hey, you are cruising for a bruising.

He was cruising for a bruising.

Pilot X was cruising for a bruising in many respects in Worst Day 9.

Cruising for a bruising: Guernsey could do much to improve conditions for cruise passengers, a critic has argued.

Fuelled by alcohol, the men peacocked for hours, competitively spinning variants on clichés such as "cruising for a bruising."

"With the nice rally the market had last week, we were cruising for a bruising," said Bryan Piskorowski, a market analyst at Prudential Securities.

Turkey, incidentally, just for pig-iron and incorrigible spite, look like ten times the side they were at Lansdowne, just when we need them to be sullen, depressed, and cruising for a bruising.

Cruising for a bruising: the Blackline looks great but is uncomfortable Photo: BENEDICT CAMPBELL

Reeves looked to be cruising for a bruising as recently as Monday when he blasted the fans and the press on the day he had to go along with the program and cut his pet quarterback, Tommy Maddox.