have someone's guts for garters
have someone's guts for garters · has someone's guts for garters · had someone's guts for garters · having someone's guts for garters
To reprimand severelyTo reprimand severely.
Meaning
1 senses(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, idiomatic)To reprimand severely.
If you go out and play and get your clothes dirty, I'll have your guts for garters!
Origin
By metaphor from the way that humans use animal intestines as catgut for various tensile aBy metaphor from the way that humans use animal intestines as catgut for various tensile applications; compare have someone's hide.
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Forms
has someone's guts for garters, having someone's guts for garters, had someone's guts for garters, had someone's guts for garters| Base form | have someone's guts for garters · to have someone's guts for garters |
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| 3rd person singular | has someone's guts for garters |
| Present participle | having someone's guts for garters |
| Past simple | had someone's guts for garters |
| Past participle | had someone's guts for garters |
irregular · Lesson
Present simpleLesson
| I, you, we, they | have someone's guts for garters |
| he, she, it | has someone's guts for garters |
Past simpleLesson
| all persons | had someone's guts for garters |
Present perfectLesson
| I, you, we, they | have had someone's guts for garters |
| he, she, it | has had someone's guts for garters |
Future simple (will)Lesson
| all persons | will have someone's guts for garters |
Synonyms
22 synonymsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, irregular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle