The sentences that emerged from his mouth were flayed, generic, like lines from black-and-white movies.

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The media flayed McCourt once more as though a department head would would have prevented the beating.

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But they flayed the hapless Frenchman alive, thus establishing the prickly style of Anglo-Franco relations for the next seven centuries.

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Example: the 1607 Italian anatomy book that includes an engraving of a man whose skin has been flayed from his body.

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Critics flayed and skewered Dutch, the Edmund Morris biography of Ronald Reagan.

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If you get to feeling like a flayed deer, use the international language of charade to bring it down a notch or two.

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Grubman has been flayed in Congress, crucified by the Spitzer crusade, ousted from his job at Citigroup's Salomon Smith Barney and ambushed by a relentless CNBCcamera crew.

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I've been mercilessly flayed by my Ragbrai friends ever since.

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And while one African son is finally buried in his home continent there remain the flayed skins of two other individuals who may also be of African origin among the collection of the Darder museum in Spain.

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Although Cook was dropped on 15 when he pulled Zaheer to RP Singh at backward square-leg, runs were starting to flow when Prior - out seven times in the 30s in his 17 previous ODI appearances - flayed Munaf Patel high in the air to point, where Piyush Chawla pouched the ball.

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