smash-about

Updated: May 25, 2025

Then 'whop, one's near you, and there is a flash and everything flies. It's a mad sort of smash-about. One came much too close to be pleasant; as near as the old oil jars are from the barn court door. It bowled me clean over and sent a lot of gravel over me.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - Mr. Britling Sees It Through