body blow

Then it hit her with the force of a body blow.

"I felt like somebody had given me a body blow."

"Three major body blows to the economy through the stock market, and I'd say we did pretty well."

The decision was a body blow to many immigrant families.

"The city has taken quite a few body blows over the years.

It was a body blow to human self-esteem, they said.

The worst: Losing in 1992 was a real body blow.

I thought that really could have been a body blow to his career."

If the press finds out, the campaign would suffer a body blow.

But tomorrow, with just a few words, the Chancellor could deal the company a body blow.

The result is a much more flexible labor force, one that can take the body blow of change.

Except, after I died, my body blew up like a balloon.

The current was like someone battering me with body blows.

The family friend told how the photos came as a body blow to 47-year-old Mia.

Again her words hit me like a body blow.

But the effect was more like a body blow.

"Politically, this is a real body blow for the vice president."

The campaign in which she and others engaged delivered a body blow to our system of justice.

British wave energy research has not yet recovered from this body blow.

The use of her own words against her was a body blow and she looked away.

All round fragments of a man's body blown to pieces.

Suddenly the confidence of the new radicals received a body blow.

But that hapless adult also has taken a body blow.

The punches have impact; body blows look like they really hurt.

The man was instantly killed, his body blown into a thousand pieces.