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  • Is this lazy roommate susceptible to nerve gas and a swift knee to the solar plexis?

    Doug Lieblich: New Facebook Privacy Policy Doug Lieblich 2010

  • Is this lazy roommate susceptible to nerve gas and a swift knee to the solar plexis?

    Doug Lieblich: New Facebook Privacy Policy 2010

  • This is a hugely important moment when you say, "this is what we stand for" -- and with no openly gay person on the podium -- or in his Cabinet - Warren's pick is a devastating kick in the solar plexis.

    Karen Ocamb: Barack Obama, Linda Douglass, and Little Ole LGBT Me 2009

  • I looked in his eyes, and I could see his solar plexis.

    Bush Exiled to Isle of St. Helena 2009

  • Searing pain spreads across my solar plexis like I've been shot.

    Tom Matlack: Fight Club 2009

  • Searing pain spreads across my solar plexis like I've been shot.

    Tom Matlack: Fight Club 2009

  • They say, "The entertainer who took pride in having the longest-running syndicated TV talk show told her pal Larry King that the cancellation, 'just like hits you in the solar plexis,'" which makes it seem like something bad was happening to you.

    CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2002 2002

  • “Ye’ll be afther notin’, ” said Mr. Mulqueen, “that a poonch in the plexis putts a man out; but it don’t kill him.

    The Fighting Chance 1899

  • But it’s not murther I tache; it’s the hook on the jaw that shtops, an’ the poonch in the plexis that putts the booze-divil on the bum!

    The Fighting Chance 1899

  • And as far as punch comparison .... it doesn't work that way, Zuniga didn't see it and even if he did it landed on the solar plexis so it would not have mattered, you get hit there by anyone, you are going down ...

    East Side Boxing 2009

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