shellacking

Etymology 1
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Etymology 2
From. Shellac is used in floor polish; compare, as in "the other boxer in the match polished the floor with me; I took quite a polishing".

Noun

 * 1) The act or process of coating with shellac.
 * 2)  A heavy defeat, drubbing, or beating; used particularly in sports and political contexts.
 * 3) * 1929 The Leatherneck, vol. 12 (December, 1929), p. 21:
 * Our baseball team got off to an indifferent start at the beginning of the season, but "Steve" Newman gave Gonzalo another shellacking that he won't forget for some time.
 * 1) * 1944 Frank Marshall Davis, "Defeats of the Home Front" (news article, February 23, 1944; reprinted in Writings of Frank Marshall Davis: A Voice of the Black Press, University Press of Mississippi, 2009, p. 126):
 * Unity and democracy are still taking a shellacking here on the home front, despite our successes in the Marshall Islands and in Italy.
 * 1) * 2010 Peter Baker, "What Does He Do Now?", The New York Times Magazine, October 17, 2010:
 * [C]learly Obama hopes that just as Clinton recovered from his party's midterm shellacking in 1994 to win re-election two years later, so can he.
 * 1) * 2010 Ben Shpigel, "Charmed Giants Take a Big First Step," The New York Times, October 28, 2010:
 * Bochy was speaking for the masses, who watched a supposed duel of Cy Young award winners evolve into a full-fledged shellacking.
 * 1) * 2010 November 4, Barack Obama, comments at a press conference, after his political party lost control of the House of Representatives in the mid-term elections:
 * Now, I'm not recommending for every future president that they take a shellacking like I took last night.
 * Bochy was speaking for the masses, who watched a supposed duel of Cy Young award winners evolve into a full-fledged shellacking.
 * 1) * 2010 November 4, Barack Obama, comments at a press conference, after his political party lost control of the House of Representatives in the mid-term elections:
 * Now, I'm not recommending for every future president that they take a shellacking like I took last night.