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give someone a (good) drubbing
vs
lace into
give someone a (good) drubbing
lace into
verb
To consume with gusto.
To vigorously attack, either physically or verbally.
How often have the words
give someone a (good) drubbing
and
lace into
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)