whip-cracking

Johny, you are totally right when you said that a lot of people end up trading a boss for a whip-cracking self.

Fight for your right to be lazy | Johnny B. Truant 2010

Unless you traded a whip-cracking boss for a whip-cracking self who never lets you take a break.

2010 May | Johnny B. Truant 2010

Unless you traded a whip-cracking boss for a whip-cracking self who never lets you take a break.

Johnny | Johnny B. Truant 2010

On Wednesday, Mrs. Merkel went into whip-cracking mode again when she threatened the Greeks with expulsion if they voted against the most recent bailout.

Behind Germany's Dithering Josef Joffe 2011

In "The Set-Up," Mr. Baldessari has painted out all of Picabia's menacing, black-masked, whip-cracking "Animal Trainer" 1923 save for one red dog and another, standing on its hind legs, brown-and-white-spotted dog.

For Baldessari, Art Imitates Art Paul Levy 2011

Unless you traded a whip-cracking boss for a whip-cracking self who never lets you take a break.

Fight for your right to be lazy | Johnny B. Truant 2010

As Greece embarks on deep cuts to appease a whip-cracking euro-zone, workers in its famously bloated and inefficient public sector fear balancing the books will fall strictly on their backs, shattering any dreams of the good life politicians pushing the euro had promised.

Violence Mars Greek Protest; Strike Grinds Country to a Halt Alkman Granitsas 2010

As Greece embarks on deep cuts to appease a whip-cracking euro-zone, workers in its famously bloated and inefficient public sector fear balancing the books will fall strictly on their backs, shattering any dreams of the good life politicians pushing the euro had promised.

Greece Grinds to a Halt Amid General Strike Alkman Granitsas 2010

As Greece embarks on deep cuts to appease a whip-cracking euro-zone, workers in its famously bloated and inefficient public sector fear balancing the books will fall strictly on their backs, shattering any dreams of the good life politicians pushing the euro had promised.

Greece Grinds to a Halt Amid General Strike Alkman Granitsas 2010

Ms. BROWN: Well, you know, the fact is that it does take more than bold speeches and whip-cracking rhetoric to actually get something done.

Tina Brown's Must-Reads: Looking Past Appearances 2010