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I’ll lace your jacket for you, beat you. (French, laisse, a lash; German, laschen, to strike; our lash.)
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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.