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bollock
vs
tear a strip off someone
bollock
verb
To reprimand severely and grossly.
To exhaust, tire out.
noun
A testicle.
tear a strip off someone
verb
To scold vigorously.
How often have the words
bollock
and
tear a strip off someone
occurred in a corpus of books?
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