light into
Verb
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Verb
light into
- (transitive) To set upon or attack.
- 1885, Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, ch. 22:
- [H]e lit into that horse with his whip.
- 1915, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of the Island, ch. 11:
- [S]he lit into everybody else in the church and gave them a fearful raking down, calling them right out by name and telling them how they all had behaved, and casting up all the quarrels and scandals of the past ten years.
- 1935, "[http://news.google.ca/newspapers?id=6QUuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8JgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2281,2992648&dq=to-light-into&hl=en U.S. Judge and Wife Killed by Bandits]," Montreal Gazette, 25 Apr. (retrieved 16 Jan. 2010):
- "Father grabbed the two guns and told me to light into the other man. I jumped on him and started choking him."
- 2003, Diane Roberts, "[http://news.google.ca/newspapers?id=-7oMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NV4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5095,3531644&dq=lighting-into&hl=en Graham would make Florida proud]," St. Petersburg Times, 13 Jan. (retrieved 16 Jan. 2010):
- He speaks with more passion than ever, lighting into George W. Bush for fumbling the economy.
- 1885, Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, ch. 22:
- (attack physically) assail, assault, lace into, lam into, rip into, tear into
- (attack verbally) criticize, dress down, excoriate, lace into, lam into, rebuke, reprimand, rip into, scold, tear into
- See also Thesaurus:reprehend
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