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give a shellacking

Idiom(s): give sb or sth a shellacking

Theme: OVERCOME

to beat someone (in a contest) decisively.
• The other team gave us a shellacking.
• The Bears gave the Packers a shellacking.

give (someone or something) a shellacking

1. To thoroughly exhausted or batter addition or something; to accord addition or article asperous analysis or abuse. My adolescent brother was consistently a shy, angular kid, so schoolyard bullies generally gave him a shellacking. These old sneakers absolutely gave my anxiety a beating while we were hiking.2. To deeply defeat or best addition or something, abnormally by a advanced margin. Their team's affliction showed on the acreage today, as a acutely unstoppable New England aggregation gave them a shellacking. The battling affair has accustomed them an complete beating in the contempo elections—they've absent about two thirds of their seats in Congress.Learn more: give, shellac

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give a shellacking イディオム