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come down on someone (like a ton of bricks)
vs
tan someone's hide
come down on someone (like a ton of bricks)
tan someone's hide
verb
To beat or spank someone.
How often have the words
come down on someone (like a ton of bricks)
and
tan someone's hide
occurred in a corpus of books?
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