21. Then, boy, what a shellacking we took in Chicago and St . Louis. 22. I took a shellacking in the sense that I couldn't make it happen. 23. The Bears then scored 44 straight points on their way to a 46-10 shellacking . 24. Don't let Tuesday night's 75-42 shellacking of Auburn fool you. 25. For sure, the Matadors'103-72 shellacking of the Saints was terrific therapy. 26. The Hurricanes are Big East Conference champions thanks to their 59-0 shellacking of Syracuse. 27. Altogether then, Israel seems to have taken a political shellacking without gaining much of anything militarily. 28. The House has taken a shellacking because of the party-line votes and the obvious partisanship, 29. If interviewers are perceived as going too easy, they risk taking a shellacking in the press. 30. What could have been a 35-0 shellacking at best was still very much a game.