It is great fun knocking down one's own ninepins.
Thank goodness, it is not true to say that they are going down like ninepins.
If he wants ninepins to knock down, let us have them.
As soon as the doors of one company were closed, the rest went down like ninepins.
I will not make a debating reply, responding to each point as though they had to be knocked down like ninepins in the customary fashion.
But in 30 years from now, with the present strict hygiene rules, those households would probably go down like ninepins.
We must not set up ninepins that do not exist, and knock them down with magnificent rhetoric.
He seems to have been setting up a lot of ninepins and knocking them down to his own satisfaction.
