1 He's a bit bolshy these days.

2 Carol is bolshy at not getting promotion.

3 I asked her to give me a hand but she's being a bit bolshy about it.

4 Both resorted to higher public spending and debt as an easy option to buy off bolshy voters.

5 But this time there are no pantomime villains, like bolshy shop stewards or incompetent managers, to make sense of the narrative.