have someone's guts for garters
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have someone's guts for garters
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By metaphor from the way that humans use animal intestines as catgut for various tensile applications; compare have someone's hide.
verb has someone's guts for garters · having someone's guts for garters · had someone's guts for garters
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To reprimand severely.
If you go out and play and get your clothes dirty, I'll have your guts for garters!
Similar: have someone's head, give someone what for, nail someone to the wall, amerce, castigate, chasten, chastise, come down on, correct, fix someone's wagon, have someone's guts for garters, have someone's hide
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