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lay into
vs
send someone away with a flea in their ear
lay into
verb
To beat up or launch an attack against.
To berate; to scold.
send someone away with a flea in their ear
How often have the words
lay into
and
send someone away with a flea in their ear
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
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