/ · 1894 Brewer’s · G · Give it Him (To)
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To scold or thrash a person. As “I gave it him right and left.” “Iʹll give it you when I catch you.” An elliptical phrase, dare pænam. “Give it him well.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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