He swatted a then league record 46 home runs in 1950.
The workers selected those with the longest hair and swatted them with their hard hats.
He approaches one of them when it gets injured and is swatted away, hurting his leg.
They were simply swatted aside.
I do not regard the independent airline operators as flies to be swatted.
The more he appealed, the more they swatted him, and they carried on having a great time, enjoying life and demanding more and more goodies.
Then one's wife complains that one has swatted her by mistake!
