What we're after is something light and fast, but still stiff enough to take a bashing.

"We've been taking a bashing for over a year now, from the press and everyone else, as if we couldn't do anything right.

The index takes a bashing, sometimes to little effect.

Industry, meanwhile, is also expected to take a bashing.

But this all-American favorite has taken a bashing lately, at least in the media.

Unite continue to take a bashing in the press.

Four years later, it had fallen to No. 204, after taking a bashing in court and in the press.

At last, the brand and its army of smug followers have taken a bashing.

"That'll take a bashing on a hard shore and never a crack in fifty years.

The Greek art market appears to have taken a bashing as the country continues to wrestle with economic tragedy.

Nikkei was unchanged during market hours, but taken a bashing since then

Fortunately everything is going well, one of my knees took a bashing but I'm recovering fine.'

Their inheritances have taken a bashing along with their fathers’ businesses in Russia’s financial crisis.

Teams of engineers are working hard to secure the old and fragile infrastructure which took a bashing in the last winter storms.

Spot prices have taken a bashing.

Mary Queen of Shops: I've taken a bashing for my country

Health-care reform has taken a bashing.

My chequebook took a bashing because both girls went to Medsim, a weekend course where they got a fla-vour of life as a medic.

The bookmakers took a bashing.

The pound took a bashing on October 22nd, following a pessimistic speech by Mr King the evening before.

After last year's sad showing against the Gators, Ohio State and the Big Ten took a bashing.

GM’s brand image took a bashing in Germany during its long-running and ultimately failed attempt to secure government bail-out loans for the business.

The EU also took a bashing in the state-run English language China Daily newspaper.

Renoir's reputation takes a bashing, plus autumn's best exhibitions open as the art world hits London for Frieze week '

Shares in the insurer are currently trading up 10 per cent - having taken a bashing on Monday and last week on persistent rumours of capital trouble.