And activists have used the semi-anonymity of social media to lash out against the government.
But all of them add up to a coiled-up rage, ready to lash out at the nearest target.
And when you peacefully protest their stereotyping of you, they lash back at you and they call you horrendous, horrific names.
Hammami followed his video by taking to Twitter to lash out at Shabaab and its emir.
The unending negotiations have given Israel the domestic stability to lash out in the region, using its American made weapons.
But the lash of the whip found his face, and marked it for a time worse than the small-pox.
Even the puling creature writhed under the lash of Mary's tones.
His hand was smarting as though struck with the lash of a whip.
But having a raisin in my mouth I could not on the instant respond to the lash.
Does it hold back the lash from the slave, or sweeten his bitter bread?
c.1300, las "a blow, a stroke," later "flexible part of a whip" (late 14c.), possibly imitative. The verb might be the source of the noun.
"bind," 1620s, originally nautical, from Middle French lachier, from Old French lacier "to lace" (see lace (v.)). Related: Lashed; lashing.
