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Punish severely, as in If I find the guy who slashed my tire I'll skin him alive . This hyperbolic expression transfers the barbaric practice of flaying a live prisoner to other forms of punishment. [ Colloquial mid-1800s]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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