two-by-four

What about the law against the IRS smacking Tea Party-type nonprofits over the head with a two-by-four?

"None of your pin-head two-by-four shysters that you see here in the East," exclaimed Mr. Sleighter.

As if in answer to his name, Bonfire appeared, red-faced and breathless, holding a short two-by-four in his hand.

Using the two-by-four as a fulcrum, he began levering the door upward and outward.

I say, Phil, should this two-by-four go in with the big side out, or the narrow?

It's a crime for a girl with your looks to be pounding the keys in a two-by-four canning factory in a jerk Maine town.