clean the floor up with

clean the floor (up) with (one)

1. To physically attack one, as with punches and other blows, such that they suffer significant injury. I'm worried that the captain of the football team will clean the floor with me if he finds out that I'm secretly seeing his girlfriend. Oh, my boyfriend knows that I would clean the floor up with him if he ever lies to me about something that serious.

2. To defeat one decisively in a competition. In this usage, "up" is not typically used in the phrase. The final score was 17-1? Wow, we really cleaned the floor with that team!

clean the floor up with someone

Fig. to beat someone up. If you don't shut up, I'll clean up the floor with you. You won't clean the floor up with me!

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释义	clean the floor up with clean the floor (up) with (one) 1. To physically attack one, as with punches and other blows, such that they suffer significant injury. I'm worried that the captain of the football team will clean the floor with me if he finds out that I'm secretly seeing his girlfriend. Oh, my boyfriend knows that I would clean the floor up with him if he ever lies to me about something that serious. 2. To defeat one decisively in a competition. In this usage, "up" is not typically used in the phrase. The final score was 17-1? Wow, we really cleaned the floor with that team! See also: clean, floor Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. clean the floor up with someone Fig. to beat someone up. If you don't shut up, I'll clean up the floor with you. You won't clean the floor up with me! See also: clean, floor, up McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. See also: clean the floor (up) with (one) knock the (living) daylights out of (one) knock the hell out of knock the living daylights out of beat the daylights out of beat the living daylights out of beat the tar out of (one)
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