slap around

No, I’m not talking about James Mangold’s hotly anticipated “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” fun as it is to see Harrison Ford slap around a bunch of SS officers for old times’ sake.

But the seeds of that long day were planted years ago: The press has been attacked and disparaged by politicians for decades, whenever they found it served their purposes to slap around the “nattering nabobs of negativism,” as Richard Nixon’s vice president, Spiro Agnew, once put it.

Matthew Evans, defending, said if Taylor has been caught by an older woman "he might have got a slap around the head".

It’s something that’s round and flat and slides around something that you slap around with a stick.”

The take we're referring to occurred on live on the MNF set at MetLife Stadium, where the New England Patriots were gearing up to slap around the New York Jets for the millionth time.