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Idiom

beat the shit out of

Vulgar

Meaning

To beat (someone) severely.

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

Examples

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

“If you touch his car again, he is going to beat the shit out of you.”

“The gang leader warned the informant that if he spoke to the police, his associates would beat the shit out of him.”

Examples

simple

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

contextual

“If you touch his car again, he is going to beat the shit out of you.”

complex

“The gang leader warned the informant that if he spoke to the police, his associates would beat the shit out of him.”

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