pull a punch

pull a punch to deliberately hit someone with less force than you could do, so that it hurts less故意不使出全力来打〔以避免伤害某人〕⇒not pull any punches at PUNCH² (6)

• escape wheels
• have a chin
• plasticiser
• under one's breath
• white birch
• weapons-grade uranium
• cryohydric
• thermo-compression
• prosperoes
• goat gods
• plattelands
• Ophiomyxina
• interdenominationalism
• smoke
• straight sinus
• blood money
• wood hen
• trans-border
• jus sanguinis
• Cyclidium
• ripostes
• theatricalism
• cellulates
• Devanagari
• self-torture
• ballistically
• angiocardiogram
• great britains
• quaternity
• weather observation
• get one's rag out
• pump sth into
• rest your case
• alimony
• leno
• automatic stoker
• algebraic simplification
• work on all cylinders
• bohunk
• anal gland
• hammers
• Castor and Pollux
• gun clubs
• golden orioles
• GEOREF
• sensuousnesses
• inss
• body colour
• subduednesses
• smoodging
• external forces
• policlinic
• get on to the bandwagon
• Mngr
• job schedule
• yukky
• SHM
• Peres, Shimon
• sheen
• Scottish
• truncus arteriosus
• ecological succession
• fatten up
• Particulars of Claim
• dissuaders
• extreme close-up
• between the devil and the deep blue sea
• visually / physically / mentally etc challenged
• CAORF
• unbrokenly
• plew
• make things hum
• whistle-blower
• with regard to
• exciter
• riffraffs
• hemizygote
• Peach State
• little corporals
• gastrohepatic omentum
• sullyings
• control joint
• longtimer
• (out) in the sticks
• mount a (或the) ladder
• physiological tetanus
• silver certificate
• lead someone down the garden
• rhp
• at wait
• take a rain check
• ophthalmoscopic
• hipster
• extractive industry
• pot-vague
• semidrying
• besnow
• sharklike
• liftman
• devote to