punching bag

Because horror is a genre built on excess, it’s also an easy punching bag.

Whatever maternal feelings she has for her other children are missing when it comes to Gish, who becomes her mother’s scapegoat and punching bag.

Hatton's parents made a small gym in the basement of their pub when he was 12, and it was there that he honed his skills on a punching bag.

He was a favorite punching bag of the mainstream media, a slovenly suburban Ahab doomed to fail.

The house itself boasted a gym with a punching bag and a games room where he could play pool and table football.