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Idiom

beat the poop out of

Meaning

To beat (someone) severely.

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

Examples

“The bully threatened to beat the poop out of him.”

“If you touch his car again, he will definitely beat the poop out of you.”

“The protagonist warned his rival that if he continued to interfere with his plans, he would beat the poop out of him without hesitation.”

Examples

simple

“The bully threatened to beat the poop out of him.”

contextual

“If you touch his car again, he will definitely beat the poop out of you.”

complex

“The protagonist warned his rival that if he continued to interfere with his plans, he would beat the poop out of him without hesitation.”

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