have someone's hide

An earlier phase of the same metaphor as at tan someone's hide § Etymology. The cognitive effect discussed at ass § Usage notes is operative in these usages concerning a person's hide.

• "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."

• have someone's head
• nail someone to the wall
• tan someone's hide
• amerce
• castigate
• chasten
• chastise
• come down on
• correct
• fix someone's wagon
• have someone's guts for garters
• have someone's head
• have someone's hide
• give it to someone
• give someone what for
• give what for
• gruel
• malavogue
• nail someone to the wall
• penalize
• penance
• punish
• tan someone's hide
• tar out
• teach someone a lesson