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pull someone over the coals
vs
tear someone a new asshole
pull someone over the coals
verb
Synonym of haul someone over the coals
tear someone a new asshole
verb
Synonym of tear someone a new one
How often have the words
pull someone over the coals
and
tear someone a new asshole
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)