10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HAVE SOMEONE'S GUTS FOR GARTERS»
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A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial ...
New York: Dell Publishing Company, 1985. 1989 both of them hated his guts. (p.
72) Kellerman, Faye. The Quality of Mercy . 1989. New York: Fawcett Crest, 1990.
To have someone's guts for garters (ODEP 297; MP 276) 1943 I'll stick you like ...
George B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder, 2005
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Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
idioms have sb's guts for garters uk informal If you say you will have someone's
guts for garters, you mean that you will punish them severely: If that boy has
taken my bike again, I'll have his guts for garters! * slog/sweat/ work your guts out
...
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Oxford Dictionary of English
... as hard as possible: I've worked my guts out to get where Iam today. hate
someone's guts informal feel a strong hatred for someone. have someone's guts
for garters Brit. humorous punish someone severely: if you breathe a word to
anyone, ...
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Cassell's Dictionary of Slang
[20C+] (Aus.) to have someone marked down for punishment or revenge, [abbr.
SE. set down] have someone's guts for garters v. (also have someone's guts for a
garter, wear someone's guts for earmuffs) [late 16C; late 18C; 1930s+] to punish ...
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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
... see DOWN. have the drop on: see DROP. have a go (at): see GO. have
someone's guts for garters: see GUT. have had the biscuit: see BISCUIT. have
had it 0 be in a very poor condition; be beyond repair or past its best. 9 be
extremely tired.
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The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms
... them out, get them liquored up so they blab their guts out, and I'll have a full
report by noon next. hate someone's guts feel a strong hatred for someone.
informal have someone's guts for garters punish or rebuke someone severely.
informal ...
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The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and ...
have someone's guts for garters used for expressing a level of personal threat.
An idea that has been in circulation since about 1592. Hyperbolical, but none the
less real for all that UK, 1933 guts and butts doc noun a gastroenterologist US, ...
Terry Victor, Tom Dalzell, 2007
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Freddie, Bill and Irving
“I'm going to have someone's guts for garters. Pass the message on: heads are
going to roll, nobody's going to make a fool of me!” It was a very bad-tempered
Lieutenant Commander who joined the assembled group of VIPs and dignitaries
on ...
If she found Randal had been made privy to secrets about Delamere which had
been withheld from her, she would have someone's guts for garters. And how
could Justin, who had been in Portugal at the time, know who had been poking ...
