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come down on someone (like a ton of bricks)
vs
have someone's guts for garters
come down on someone (like a ton of bricks)
have someone's guts for garters
verb
To reprimand severely.
How often have the words
come down on someone (like a ton of bricks)
and
have someone's guts for garters
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)