2016年3月29日 · The first occurrence of shellacking in the sense of "beating" that an Elephind search returns is from "Greb's Slam-Banging," in the [Sydney, New South Wales] Referee (March 3, 1926): The king of the middleweights [Harry Greb] has lots of fancy punches, some allowable in fair rules, and some not.

2015年4月18日 · clobbered,walloped, whipped, gave them a shellacking, destroyed them, walked all over them, made mincemeat of them, wiped the floor with them, killed them, throttled them (held losers to much fewer points than they usually make), pulverized them, stomped them, etc. ad …