Definition
To beat or spank someone, usually on their backside.
Origins
By metaphor from tannery: beating hides (to condition them), tanning them (with dyes and chemicals), and so on.
In Context
- ""You lying little snipe," he roared. ". . . I've a mind to tan your hide good.""
Also Said As
- have someone's hide
- give someone what for
- nail someone to the wall
- 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