have someone's hide

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have someone's hide (third-person singular simple present has someone's hide, present participle having someone's hide, simple past and past participle had someone's hide)

  1. (idiomatic) To punish or subdue someone.
    • 1981 June 18, Hubert Mizell, “Cubs, new owners: a suspect marriage”, in St. Petersburg Times, retrieved 29 Mar. 2009:
      Why doesn't The St. Petersburg Times scrape together $30 million and purchase football's Tampa Bay Buccaneers? Then, when I tell John McKay how to coach, he'd listen or I'd have his hide.

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