punching bag

English

punching bag (plural punching bags)

A device, consisting of a tough cloth bag over sand or other material, used to practice punching, boxing or kicking.
(figuratively) A person serving as an object of abuse.
- 2019 April 14, Alex McLevy, “Winter is here on Game Of Thrones' final season premiere (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club‎:
  For so long, Theon Greyjoy was the punching bag of Game Of Thrones, a sort of shitty Charlie Brown who not only failed to kick the football, but would then be beaten savagely with it every time he landed on his ass.

device used to practice punching

Japanese: サンドバッグ (sandobaggu)
Korean: 샌드백 (sandeubaeg)
Latin: cōrycus m
Norwegian: boksesekk
Polish: worek bokserski m, worek treningowy (pl) m
Portuguese: saco de pancada (pt) m, saco de boxe m
Romanian: sac de box m
Russian: боксёрская гру́ша f (boksjórskaja grúša), боксёрский мешо́к m (boksjórskij mešók)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: врећа за ударање f, боксерски врећа f, боксерски џак

Roman: vreća za udaranje f, bokserski vreća f, bokserski džak
Slovak: boxovacie vrece f
Slovene: boks vreča f
Spanish: saco de boxeo m
Swedish: boxningssäck
Turkish: boks torbası

object of abuse

Polish: worek treningowy (pl) m
Portuguese: saco de pancada (pt) m
Russian: гру́ша (ru) f (grúša), (whipping boy) ма́льчик для битья́ (ru) m (málʹčik dlja bitʹjá)
Spanish: saco de boxeo m

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