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English Idioms :: whale the --- out of
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whale.html - {v. phr.}, {informal} To beat hard; give a bad beating to. - Used with several words after "the", as "daylights", "living daylights", "tar". * /The big kid told Charlie that he would beat the daylights out of him if Charlie came in his yard again./ |
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English Idioms :: whale away
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whale.html - {v.}, {informal} 1. To beat or hit hard; strike again and again. - Often used with "at". * /The boxer is whaling away at his opponent with both fists./ 2. To attack severely or again and again; go on without stopping or with great force; pound away. * /Mary has been whaling away on the typewriter for an hour./ - Often used with "at". * /During the election the Mayor whaled away at the other party in his speeches./ |
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English Idioms :: whale the --- out of
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whale.html - See: BEAT THE --- OUT OF. |
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Traditional English :: whale(1)
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whale.html - n. (pl. same or whales) any of the larger marine mammals of the order Cetacea, having a streamlined body and horizontal tail, and breathing through a blowhole on the head. a whale of a colloq. an exceedingly good or fine etc. whale-oil oil from the blubber of whales. whale shark a large tropical whalelike shark, Rhincodon typus, feeding close to the surface. [OE hwól] |
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Traditional English :: whale(2)
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whale.html - v.tr.
esp. US colloq. beat, thrash. [var. of WALE] |
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Traditional English :: whaleback
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whale.html - n.
anything shaped like a whale's back. |
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