Whip可以當名詞，解釋為鞭子，它也可以是動詞，意思是鞭打，而且通常是懲罰性的鞭打。

那麼whip組成的短語都有哪些引申意思呢？

下面我們一起來看一下：

1. Tom says his mother uses him as the whipping boyat 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.

　　湯姆說他母親把他當成家裏的受氣包，她母親是個酒鬼，每次他父親為他母親喝醉酒發火的時候，他母親就遷怒于他。

2. I hate the way the boss cracks the whipat 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."

　　我最討厭老闆對我們耍威風。他剛才說：“從現在開始，請假一小時以上的人事先都得給我寫假條，不然我就作擅離職守處理。”

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

　　你能確保辯論中每位辯手都能得到均等的機會嗎？

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.

　　大家都說托尼聰明靈活，他很了解官僚機構的辦事風格，並且總能避免那些通常的拖拖拉拉和繁瑣手續來達到自己的目的。

5. Old Mr. Lee put his son and daughter to work in the factory he owned but he never let them have any responsibility because he wanted to hold the whip handover them as long as he lived.

　　老李先生把兒子和女兒都安插在自己的廠裏工作，卻從來不讓他們管事，因為他想在他活著的時候能夠對子女有控制權。

6. We had a whip-roundfor Annie's leaving present.

　　我們湊份子給安妮買了離別禮物。

7. With a lot of training, we might be able to whip the team into shapein time for next year's games.

　　經過大量的訓練，我們或許能夠使這支運動隊及時成形，以參加下一年的運動會。

8. If you haven't heard about the Internet, you belong to the buggy-whipage.

　　要是你沒聽說過因特網，那你可真是大大落後於時代了。