shellacking in English
verb
1
varnish (something) with shellac.
You have to be involved on a daily basis with the intimate details of it - down to cleaning the bathrooms and shellacking the floor.
2
defeat or beat (someone) decisively.
they were shellacked in the 1982 election
Use "shellacking" in a sentence
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1. Biden campaign Agonizes over Iowa shellacking
2. Obama reacted to the defeats by ruefully observing: "Some election nights are better than others" and accepting he had taken a "shellacking" from the voters.