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come down on someone (like a ton of bricks)
vs
give someone what for
come down on someone (like a ton of bricks)
give someone what for
verb
To punish; to rebuke.
How often have the words
come down on someone (like a ton of bricks)
and
give someone what for
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)