Sentences with word «cosh»

The word "cosh" is a noun that refers to a heavy, weighted object used as a weapon. It can also be used as a verb to mean hitting or striking someone with such an object. Full definition
They bludgeoned their victims over the head with coshes as they did in the Leeds robbery, relieving the store manager of # 4,000.
Isometric stretching temporarily disables the stretch reflex but instead of the gentle persuasion that passive stretching uses, isometric stretching basically uses a giant cosh to hit the stretch reflex and give it no option but to relax whether it wants to or not.
Egoyan directs with a similar coshing touch, keen on the significant glance and the ariel shot of grieving parents, drenching the soundtrack in plinky reverb, giving the whole project the full TV movie treatment.
Specifically includes: Typical and Atypical antipsychotics How each drug works Evaluation of each drug - evidence for effectiveness, problems with evidence for effectiveness, relation to the dopamine hypothesis, serious side effects and the chemical cosh argument
Coq's stupidity today was just so bloody frustrating, after being under the cosh for most of the first half were were well in control, all he had to do was shadow Kane down the wing.
The third CB is there to cover for you Bellerin, and when we are under the cosh then it's five back.
We were under the cosh for most of the first half, and had David Ospina to thank when Erik Lamela looked to turn a cross goalwards.
Hard working throughout and looked capable of making something happen, but against the cosh playing against an extra man is obviously not his forte.
Did you see him rallying the team when we were under the cosh?
With 25 minutes left Wenger replaced Cazorla with Rosicky as we were under the cosh and the Spaniard was not having much influence.
Per Mertesacker — 6.5 Looked more solid alongside the Boss but, although fine when we are under the cosh, he can't deal with breakaway attacks any more when he is stranded on the half - way line.
soon as Laca came off we were under the cosh!
When we are under the cosh he seems to fall back in line with our CBs thus leaving a man free and the cut back an option for rival team.
Halfway through the half our defence begins to look shaky and Spurs start to put us under the cosh, so it was not much of a surprise when Kane beat our offside trap to slot the ball past Cech.
Subs: Maitland Niles — 6 A decent performance when we were under the cosh so to speak.
Let's get over the pressure now and just go for the rest of the epl season without being under the cosh and see where it takes us plus let us not forget that all the 3 cups are still ours to lose.....
Suffice to say Mr. Wenger is well and truly under the cosh.
I think we were fortunate the last 10 minutes as we were under the cosh but our faults are clear to see at left back Mertesacker Dm and Ozil who should be sold.
I do not think that we can ignore the fact that Arsenal were under the cosh from the start of our Champions League match away to Bayern Munich last night.
If you get a lucky break away from home on a saunday afternoon when it's pissing down with rain and you're under the cosh then you defend that lead.
Newcastle were seriously under the cosh, but Brendan Rodgers had switched Liverpool to a back four for this game, having deployed a back three for the bulk of the season, and gaps did start to open for the Magpies to break into.
Arsene Wenger has come under the cosh lately as the team has dropped away from the Top Four in the title race, but due to our Cup run we have a few games in hand which could put us right back in the mix if we get a winning run going.
Swansea were really under the cosh towards the end of the game, but stood fast and held off the Everton onslaught.
There is another big reason for Wenger to give Walcott more time in the centre and it is the upcoming Champions League double header with Barcelona because you know that we will be under the cosh in both of those games and having Walcott in top form could make the difference.
I get the reason for Arsene Wenger bringing up the last time Arsenal faced our Champions League opponents Barcelona at the Emirates Stadium, as we did beat them 2 - 1 despite being under the cosh for a lot of the match.
Jan Oblak saved the day (pun very much intended) as Atlético were put under the cosh in this so - called «decaffeinated derby.»
The Blades were under the cosh for the majority of the game, with Pochettino's side even reaching up to 85 % possession at times as the midfield trio of Christian Eriksen, Harry Kane and Andros Townsend probed for an opener.
And you certainly didn't know that in the second half we would have Leicester under the cosh to such an extent, that we could have even pulled off a most unlikely victory.
They were under the cosh through most of the second half, but Luka Milivojevic's late penalty secured what could be a vital point in their battle for Premier League survival.
We've yet to see this side under the cosh and that's testament to Jurgen Klopp setting them up in such a way.
You could sense people's amazement at the night's result, Fulham 2 Burnley 3 at a place that has been a graveyard for so long and where in this game they were under the cosh for long spells.
A hard - fought match saw both sides under the cosh over the course of the match, before Sunderland broke late on and Adam Johnson's left footed strike handed them a 0 - 1 win over Newcastle.
When they went to Napoli they were under the cosh for 20 minutes and went a goal down.
Having said that the advantage of Tomkins is that he can drop back at times and becomes almost a third centre back at times and when we're under the cosh that works really well.
Robbie Nielson's side included just four players from their last league outing, and they were under the cosh from the very first minute when Musonda received Scott's pass and forced a save from Sietsma with a fierce shot from the edge of the area.
With Chelsea under the cosh, Diego Costa and Hazard, surprisingly left out of Chelsea's starting line - up, were brought on.
The Lib Dems are already pro-reform and already under the cosh from their own membership to stick to their guns.
After shrugging off the threat in the immediate aftermath of the Labour leader's speech, the companies are now under the cosh.
She compared the rise of Ukip to the rise of Nazism in Germany in the 1930s, explaining that like then, many people felt «under the cosh» economically.
The fact that Gordon Brown keeps reverting back to black wednesday whenever he is under the cosh shows that he sees it as an ace card to play.
Membership of political parties is both historically and currently low as a proportion of the population but membership of trade unions, if under the cosh from the anti-union laws and an unfavourable economy, still takes in one third of the working population.
But his low - key vocals as bad cop Javert are a happy contrast to the coshing professionalism elsewhere.
Themes of popularity vs. reputation, Cinema vs. Stage, celebrity and social criticism all come under the cosh as Alejandro González Iñárritu meticulously dissects all strands of art culture, before our very eyes.
See, whilst very few will fight back with projectiles, the sheer size of their swarms will ensure you are under the cosh at all times, with the Deep Ones, Spawn of Dagon, Fire Vampires, Flying Polyp and Tentacles just a few of the various enemy types.
These games become all the more interesting when you're actually under the cosh.
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