Brewer's: Give it Him

(To). To scold or thrash a person. As “I gave it him right and left.” “I'll give it you when I catch you.” An elliptical phrase, dare pænam. “Give it him well.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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