"whip"相关口语表达

Whip可以当名词，解释为鞭子，它也可以是动词，意思是鞭打，而且通常是惩罚性的鞭打。那么whip组成的短语都有哪些引申意思呢？下面我们一起来看一下：

1. Tom says his mother uses him as the whipping boy at home. She's an alcoholic and whenever his dad gets mad at her for getting drunk, she turns all her anger at him onto her son.

汤姆说他母亲把他当成家里的受气包，她母亲是个酒鬼，每次他父亲为他母亲喝醉酒发火的时候，他母亲就迁怒于他。

2. I hate the way the boss cracks the whip at us. Just now he said: "From now on you have to submit a written slip to me before you take more than an hour off. Without this, I'll regard you as AWOL."

我最讨厌老板对我们耍威风。他刚才说：“从现在开始，请假一小时以上的人事先都得给我写假条，不然我就作擅离职守处理。”

3. Will you make sure all the speakers are given a fair crack of the whip in the debate?

你能确保辩论中每位辩手都能得到均等的机会吗？

4. Everybody says Tony is smart as a whip. He knows exactly what he can expect from the bureaucracy and how to get what he wants without the usual delay or trouble.

大家都说托尼聪明灵活，他很了解官僚机构的办事风格，并且总能避免那些通常的拖拖拉拉和繁琐手续来达到自己的目的。