“She's been the hottest skip on the ice this week and impressed me from the get-go with her opening match drubbing of Team Canada.”

“Or are we actually to think, along with Israel, that what God intends here is the physical drubbing of the wicked by us?”

“Duncan Fletcher, England's coach, has called for calm after England's embarrassing drubbings in the last two NatWest Series matches.”

“Monday's drubbings on judicial scrutiny, the burden of proof and the role of the director of public prosecutions proved yesterday to be anything but a one-day wonder.”

“I can take defeat but the number of drubbings is beginning to really hurt.”