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kidney punch
noun
Boxing.
an illegal punch in the lower back.
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Grandma had thrown a kidney punch.
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“We’re not bleeding. We got a kidney punch, we got the wind knocked out of us, but we’ll get our wind back.”
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There’s some pushback from players if you focus merely on the violence and ignore the grace, efficiency, precision, endurance and strategy that ultimately decides whether a team is elite in ways that an underwater kidney punch can’t.
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It was an emotional kidney punch and I don’t know how or if I should forgive her.
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Some positions felt like a kidney punch.
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