light into

Phrasal verb from light (“to get down, drop, come”, verb) + into (“against”, preposition).

• "[H]e lit into that horse with his whip."
• "[S]he lit into everybody else in the church and gave them a fearful raking down, calling them right out by name and telling them how they all had behaved, and casting up all the quarrels and scandals of the past ten years."
• ""Father grabbed the two guns and told me to light into the other man. I jumped on him and started choking him.""
• "He speaks with more passion than ever, lighting into George W. Bush for fumbling the economy."

• assail
• assault
• lace into
• lam into
• rip into
• tear into
• criticize
• dress down
• excoriate
• lace into
• lam into
• rebuke
• reprimand
• rip into
• scold
• tear into