• to drop out, to stand away, to stay out all night
• to dive, to dive, dove, dived, to duck, to sub
• to thrash out, to thresh, to thresh out
• few in number, small in numbers
• to get sy's goat, to play sy up, to set sy on edge, to set sy's nerves on edge, to stroke sy the wrong way, to stroke sy's hair the wrong way, to twist the tail of sy
• to jeer at sy, to make a laughing-stock of sy, to make mock of sy, to mock at sy, to poke fun at sy
• to barrack for sy, to pull for sy
• to give sy a beating, to give sy a trouncing, to lay into sy