punching bag

For instance, he points out, Charlemagne treated Saxony like his own personal punching bag.

He has become something of a critical punching bag of late, a thought that seemed impossible for most of his career.

Kardashian's most famous gig was as Paris Hilton's own closet organizer/punching bag/silent friend.

A punching bag as treasury secretary, Geithner finally gets to unload in ‘Stress Test.’

Walmart is clearly growing tired of being a punching bag and poster child for low wages.

You know my little two-room affair behind the chapel,—only a few books and a punching bag.

They were shoving some one here and there, making a punching bag of him, at the same time laughing uproariously.

Weighing about one hundred and thirty pounds my work upon the human punching bag was beginning to tell.

The punching-bag and other purely masculine paraphernalia had been banished to his own room, and the living-room, alas!

I made it into a tight bundle and hung it on a springy limb to use for a punching-bag.