with both barrels Idioma

let sb have it with both barrels

Idiom(s): let sb have it (with both barrels)

Theme: SCOLDING

to strike someone or attack someone verbally. (Informal. With both barrels simply intensifies the phrase.)
• I really let Tom have it with both barrels. I told him he had better not do that again if he knows what's good for him.
• Bob let John have it—right on the chin.

with both barrels

With acute force or vigor. The byword refers to the barrels of a gun. You accept to apperceive that she's activity to appear at us with both barrels if we blaze her, so aloof be prepared. The aggregation looked a bit blah in their aboriginal game, but they've appear out with both barrels tonight.Learn more: barrel, both

both barrels, with

With abounding force, as in When I scolded her for stealing, I let her accept it with both barrels. This appellation alludes to battlefront with both barrels of a bifold shotgun. [Colloquial; mid-1900s] Learn more: both