Cosh

Now would someone other than me, address the MET'S use of the cosh. ❋ Unknown (2011)

This one has plenty of entertaining anecdotes about the famous characters who pass through Mr. Lindsay-Hogg's life: Humphrey Bogart, Henry Miller, Mick Jagger "with the face of a Botticelli cosh boy" and the Beatles, squabbling shortly before their final break-up. ❋ Moira Hodgson (2011)

England were under the cosh, having suffered through a massive partnership between Hussey and Brad Haddin that gave Australia a first‑innings lead of 221. ❋ Unknown (2011)

You saw that in how many finals we played and won even when we were under the cosh for a lot of the time. ❋ Barney Ronay (2010)

Other news• The use of chemical cosh drugs for dementia patients will be cut as part of a "national action plan" proposed by a coalition of charities and private companies, reports the Daily Telegraph. ❋ Patrick Butler (2010)

All good things come to he who waits at the dark alley with a cosh ❋ Unknown (2010)

Under the cosh in Auckland, they again found the right cards to play. ❋ Unknown (2011)

They're starting to turn the screw here and advance towardss the Ireland 22.60 min: An hour gone, Wales are five points clear and have a knackered looking Irish team very much under the cosh. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Ham-radio records show that, during their time in Guyana, the Temple leaders ordered vast quantities of tranquilizers and Thorazine, "liquid cosh," in order to drug the members. ❋ John Gimlette (2011)

Peter Spencer, the Item Club's chief economist, said that even though the interest rate was likely to remain at its emergency level of 0.5% for at least three more years, consumers would "remain under the cosh". ❋ Andrew Clark (2010)

There we see the security services, under the cosh for having to pay out millions to "terrorist suspects" transported to Guantánamo, when – out of nowhere – comes the undoubtedly happy, undoubtedly diverting, announcement about the wedding. ❋ Hugh Muir (2010)

I seem to be the only person that knows where these places are, merely because I am willing to walk a few steps, open a door, cosh a guard, or tape a camera. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But before he could raise his gun or even shout, a weighted cosh spun through the air and he fell. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I mean they only cosh people so as to rob a till or get money or jewellery - not just for fun. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As the sun set to with its cosh, I imagined in black despair my aged limbs sprawled out on the scree, a victim of heatstroke. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For the first time this summer England were under the cosh. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But it is the way in which, when it feels threatened, the EU reaches instinctively for the metaphorical knuckleduster and cosh in order to discourage and suppress dissent within its ranks that ought to give anyone with half a mind pause for thought. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"[Fuck], that [feds] got a cosh, don't [mess] man." ❋ Jason (2003)

"I have got so much work to do, so I'll give u a ring when I'm not [under the cosh]" "We're just [managing] to hold onto a one [nil] lead and their really putting us under the cosh" ❋ Ddaazz (2006)

she's [got him] [under the cosh], poor [sod] ❋ Klidenengro (2004)

[I'm going to] cosh [you on] [the head]. ❋ Sandy (2004)

That [equation] is so cosh. ❋ OscarTheGrouch42 (2011)

"[did you] see [Cosh] [last night]" ❋ Gz7 (2008)

'Blud, your a cosh!! [Im gonna] [shnak] you!' ❋ E-Masterful (2005)

My girlfriend coshed in [my eye] after we had sex for [five] hours [last weekend]. ❋ Thenextday1 (2018)

[Bill] caught a big [cosh] in [the lake] ❋ The Cosh Man (2021)

"DUDE! I coshed my girlfriend last night," "[EW]! How [nasty] was it?" "Pretty [bad man], pretty bad." ❋ Sillybillyfillykillymilly (2008)