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Idiom

beat someone's ass

Vulgar

Meaning

To thrash someone.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“If you touch his car, he will beat your ass.”

“The bully threatened to beat my ass if I told the teacher what he did.”

“The protagonist warned his rival that if he continued to provoke him, he would eventually beat his ass in front of everyone.”

Examples

simple

“If you touch his car, he will beat your ass.”

contextual

“The bully threatened to beat my ass if I told the teacher what he did.”

complex

“The protagonist warned his rival that if he continued to provoke him, he would eventually beat his ass in front of everyone.”

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