acabar com alguém (por algo) bite/snap someone's head (for something)
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| Language pair: | Portuguese to English |
| Definition / notes: | ...Scold or speak very angrily to someone, as in Ask her to step down from the board? She'd bite my head off! The first expression, dating from the mid-1900s, replaced the much earlier bite someone's nose off (16th century); the variant was first recorded in 1886. |
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