Yet if Mr Rumsfeld is out of the woodshed, he is not out of the woods.
But as so often happens in sports, conventional wisdom got taken to the woodshed.
It will just make the watchdogs of the Internet have to waste time taking you to the digital woodshed.
There was something nasty in the woodshed, and when the "contagion" attacked the stock markets as well, it was confirmed.
These events include a two-day trip to the woodshed in Amman, Jordan with President Bush for Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
It was time to woodshed, time to build an audience through constant, intense performance in clubs, small theatres, and university gyms.
So, companies that reduce their dividend to avoid needless taxation of their shareholders are taken out to the woodshed for their actions.
After the markets fell back in July, the favourite tales changed: the recent talk has been of something nasty in the woodshed.
Alas, it couldn't fit through the door of the woodshed Ford was using for a garage, so he used an ax to smash his way out.
Last but not least, "The Bourne Legacy" takes Congress to the woodshed for its failure to maintain proper oversight and limit funding on absurd pork-barrel projects.
WSJ: Joe Queenan on Big Government and The Bourne Legacy | Moving Targets
It is kind of in its fifth base, which you know, it could be extended, but the market, in my opinion, has been rewarding the winners and really taking everybody else to the woodshed.
If there does turn out to be something nasty in the woodshed, his enemies will brand him as complacent or, worse, claim plausibly that his chosen image of prudence and iron resolve was a fake.
At the very least, President Bush must take him to the proverbial woodshed, making clear that his deprecating remarks about the future leaders of the former Soviet Union at the republic level do not reflect present U.S. policy.
Well-meaning folks just trying to give their kids a head start in life routinely get taken to the woodshed for giving their children synthetic monikers that make them sound like science-fiction characters, perhaps the slimy progeny of unscrupulous succubi.
WSJ: Go Ahead and Name Her Rhiannon: Joe Queenan on Baby Names | Moving Targets
Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins heard the new sound, propelled by bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Ed Blackwell, and went back to the woodshed to retool his music, excising the piano and guitar and featuring the work of trumpeter Don Cherry, Ornette's perennial sidekick.
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