punch

Related to punch: Punch lines
See:
  • (as) pleased as punch
  • (there's) no show without Punch
  • a pinch and a punch for the first of the month
  • be (as) pleased as punch
  • be punch-drunk
  • beat (one) to the punch
  • beat someone to the punch
  • beat to it
  • beat to the punch
  • beat to the punch/draw
  • bunch punch
  • bunch-punch
  • can't punch (one's) way out of a paper bag
  • can't punch (one's) way out of a wet paper bag
  • can't punch one's way out of a paper bag
  • couldn't punch (one's) way out of a paper bag
  • get one’s ticket punched
  • get ticket punched
  • he, she, etc. couldn't punch his, her, etc. way out of a paper bag
  • lace (something) with (something)
  • land a blow
  • land a blow, punch, etc.
  • land a punch
  • not pull (one's) punches
  • not pull any punches
  • not pull your punches
  • one-two punch
  • out of a paper bag
  • pack a punch
  • pack a wallop
  • pack a wallop/punch, to
  • pleased as punch
  • pull (one's) punches
  • pull no punches
  • pull no punches, to
  • pull one’s punches
  • pull punches
  • pull your punches
  • punch (one's) lights out
  • punch (one's) ticket
  • punch (one's) weight
  • punch (someone or something) on (something)
  • punch a hole in
  • punch a hole in (something)
  • punch a/the clock
  • punch above (one's) weight
  • punch above (something)
  • punch above your weight
  • punch above/below your weight
  • punch below (one's) weight
  • punch buggy
  • punch down
  • punch drunk
  • punch in
  • punch into
  • punch into (something)
  • punch it
  • punch lights out
  • punch on
  • punch out
  • punch out of
  • punch out of (something)
  • punch someone out
  • punch someone’s lights out
  • punch someone's lights out
  • punch the clock
  • punch up
  • punch your ticket
  • punch your weight
  • punch-drunk
  • rabbit punch
  • ride with the punches
  • roll with the punches
  • roll with the punches, to
  • roundhouse punch
  • sucker punch
  • Sunday punch
  • take a jab at
  • take a punch at (someone or something)
  • telegraph (one's) punches
  • telegraph one’s punches
  • telegraph one's punches
  • telegraph punches
  • the old one-two (punch)
  • throw a punch
  • turd in the punchbowl
References in classic literature
The punch threw me in a strong sweat and a deep slumber; the good people let me lie; and it was near noon of the next day before I took the road, my throat already easier and my spirits quite restored by good fare and good news.
The odd shilling he kept for himself, protesting he could ill afford to have so great a sum of money lying "locked up." For all that he was very courteous and well spoken, made us both sit down with his family to dinner, and brewed punch in a fine china bowl, over which my rascal guide grew so merry that he refused to start.
Kidnapped
With both her hands on his arm, she shored it back and tried to draw it forward sharply in similitude of a punch. But Billy withstrained her.
The Valley of the Moon
Micawber, clearing his throat, and warming with the punch and with the fire.
David Copperfield
"If the widow had any taste, she might surely pick up some better fellow than that." Here Tom's eye wandered from the glass on the chimney-piece to the glass on the table; and as he felt himself becoming gradually sentimental, he emptied the fourth tumbler of punch and ordered a fifth.
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club
The punch was finished and there was still nothing to do.
War and Peace
Mr Lillyvick stood higher than ever; for he had shown his power; hinted at his property and testamentary intentions; gained great credit for disinterestedness and virtue; and, in addition to all, was finally accommodated with a much larger tumbler of punch than that which Newman Noggs had so feloniously made off with.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
How little do you know the effect of rack punch! What is the rack in the punch, at night, to the rack in the head of a morning?
Vanity Fair
He was knocked to the canvas backwards, and sideways, was punched in the clinches and in the break-aways--stiff, jolty blows that dazed his brain and drove the strength from his muscles.
The Game
She held up her hand for silence, and finished the second tumbler of maraschino punch.
The Haunted Hotel
Hunt, "giving entertainments by way of parade, and if you do not drink raw rum, and boiling punch as strong as sulphur, he will insult you as soon as he gets drunk, which is very shortly after sitting down to table."
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountain
And the man thought it was Ben Ali coming back, and he began to punch the Doctor in the dark.
Story of Doctor Dolittle
Our punch was cooling in an ornamental lake, on whose margin the bower was raised.
Great Expectations
In the fireplace stood a brazier full of burning charcoal; for, though the weather was not cold, the evenings always seemed damp and chilly in that great room; and Legree, moreover, wanted a place to light his cigars, and heat his water for punch. The ruddy glare of the charcoal displayed the confused and unpromising aspect of the room,--saddles, bridles, several sorts of harness, riding-whips, overcoats, and various articles of clothing, scattered up and down the room in confused variety; and the dogs, of whom we have before spoken, had encamped themselves among them, to suit their own taste and convenience.
Uncle Toms Cabin
And he punched on and on, slower and slower, as the last shreds of vitality oozed from him, through centuries and aeons and enormous lapses of time, until, in a dim way, he became aware that the nameless thing was sinking, slowly sinking down to the rough board-planking of the bridge.
Martin Eden