to give sb a good hiding
- Fuente de la expresión
- The Free Dictionary and MacMillan Dictionary
- Estructura completa
- To give sb a good hiding
- Variantes
- beating, whipping, thrashing, tanning (slang), caning,
licking (informal), flogging, spanking, walloping (informal), drubbing,
lathering (informal), whaling, larruping (Brit. dialect) - Contexto
- When swimming season came around I refused to go into the pool. I retreated from the stench of the big expanse of chlorinated water. I simply couldn’t stand the awful smell. I ran out the school gate in my bathing shorts and kept running until a police stopped me.
I was taken back to school, but on the way I called the policeman a bastard. He gave me a good hiding with his belt before he took me to the principal. Mother was called and she gave me another terrible beating in front of my teacher. I was red and bruised all over.
- Fuente del contexto
- Libro A Blessing and a Cure: Autism and ME
- Tipo de fuente
- book
- Autor
- Caiseal Mór
- Título de la fuente
- A Blessing and a Cure: Autism and Me
- Año
- 2007
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
- Marca dialectal
- General
- Frecuencia
- Frecuente