pugachevV
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 2295
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Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 6:54 am Post subject: |
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Wanna (want to) kick his butt means, literally, that you want to kick him in the backside, and so implies physical violence. It is used nowadays quite often to mean that you just want to beat him at something. Kick his butt at chess, for example.
To teach someone a lesson means that you want to punish him for something, especially as a deterrent. |
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