It is terribly easy to set up ninepins and knock them down.
I am in favour of meeting legitimate fears but not of knocking down ninepins.
One would get the impression that we were in the habit of knocking down judges as if they were ninepins.
A large part of that speech was devoted to putting up ninepins and knocking them down.
In the last war prices rose enormously, and when the slump came firms went down like ninepins.
He is putting up ninepins in order to knock them down again.
That group is like a row of ninepins.
He seems to have been setting up a lot of ninepins and knocking them down to his own satisfaction.
