tan someone's hide
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tan someone's hide
Where it comes from
By metaphor from tannery: beating hides (to condition them), tanning them (with dyes and chemicals), and so on.
verb tans someone's hide · tanning someone's hide · tanned someone's hide
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To beat or spank someone, usually on their backside.
"You lying little snipe," he roared. ". . . I've a mind to tan your hide good."
Similar: have someone's hide, 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 head
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