to give someone a severe drubbing
- Fuente de la expresión
- MacMillan Dictionary, Glosbe
- Estructura completa
- to give someone a severe drubbing
- Variantes
- beating, licking, thrashing, whipping, defeat, whacking, debacle, walloping, lacing,
slaughter, trouncing, corporal punishment - Contexto
- His bodily vigour too must, at this time, have been considerable, as he signalised himself, at Hampstead, by giving a severe drubbing to a butcher, whom he saw beating a little boy, to the enthusiastic admiration of a crowd of bystanders.
- Fuente del contexto
- Libro John Keats. The Complete Works: Poetry, Plays, Letters and Extensive Biographies
- Tipo de fuente
- book
- Autor
- John Keats
- Título de la fuente
- John Keats. The Complete Works: Poetry, Plays, Letters and Extensive Biographies
- Año
- 2017
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
- Marca dialectal
- General
- Frecuencia
- Frecuente