With all three of her fiancés - in fact, with most people - she had held herself back, pulled her verbal punches.

Jack swung at the wall, pulled the punch just in time.

Doc Savage hadn't pulled his punch.

The advance blurb promises a "no punches pulled look" at "the ego and greed that surround this 21-year-old master."

He looked like the harried executive with bad news, and he delivered it straight ahead, no punches pulled.

She hadn't pulled the punch.

So an adjective gets dropped, a story skipped, a punch pulled .

It's a heavy load; no punches pulled.

Few punches pulled, generosity rarely withheld.

Because 1 won't pull any punches.