# Need euphemisms for "kick some ass!" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 2, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657 "2015-04-02T21:26:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/21 "2015-04-03T15:55:22Z")
Take it to the woodshed. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/22 "2015-04-03T16:15:47Z")
Sort priorities. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/23 "2015-04-03T16:57:00Z")
Light 'em Up! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/24 "2015-04-03T17:23:12Z")
Hit him so hard his mama feels it. Slap the taste out of his mouth/fillings out of his teeth Hit him five times before god knows about it. Give him a knuckle sandwich. It’s clobberin’ time! ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/25 "2015-04-03T17:31:14Z")
Rip off his head and shit down his neck. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/26 "2015-04-03T18:05:29Z")
Bring the pain Enter a world of hurt Have a Come to Jesus meeting Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/27 "2015-04-03T20:15:08Z")
Some very good ones, thanks! (I can’t believe I didn’t think of “take it to the house”.) I especially like this one: > [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Turn it up to eleven. ---
**Author:** ![Grasshopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@Grasshopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grasshopper)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/28 "2015-04-03T20:18:31Z")
Hit 'em where they ain’t. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/29 "2015-04-03T20:43:15Z")
Go to DEFCON 1 on his ass. Initiate the nuclear option. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/30 "2015-04-03T22:30:57Z")
Oh, I meant “Have an open and _frank_ discussion”. Tell his mommy on him. ---
**Author:** ![FE3O4ENAIL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba9def/32.png) [@FE3O4ENAIL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FE3O4ENAIL)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/31 "2015-04-03T23:42:05Z")
I’ll clean your clock. With a British accent “Take you to the fukin cleaner”. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/32 "2015-04-04T04:57:03Z")
How about some inventive ones? - Rocking it like Chuck Berry. - Working it like Lindsay Lohan at an all-you-can-blow cocaine bar. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/33 "2015-04-04T08:28:31Z")
Beat it like a rented mule. Show 'em how we do it _down_town. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/34 "2015-04-04T09:18:08Z")
Kick some shell. Everyone will think it’s a TMNT reference, but it’s really from the [Donkey Kong 64 rap](https://youtu.be/npuuTBlEb1U?t=39s). ---
**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/35 "2015-04-04T11:07:50Z")
Give him/her a good seeing to. This can be misunderstood, depending on whether it is accompanied by making a fist or pelvic thrusts. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/36 "2015-04-04T16:33:44Z")
Put the smack down Droppin’ plates on yo’ ass, beyotch!: [Droppin Plates on your ass beeaatch! - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZAvVLg1Kb0&feature=youtube_gdata_player) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/37 "2015-04-04T17:21:13Z")
Give him the full Mitch McConnell! Go all in on a straight flush! Going like a paid employee on that task. On it like a Scientologist fawning over Tom Cruise. The full Putin. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/38 "2015-04-04T22:23:39Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > The full Putin. Heh, I like that one. Which of course leads to: Going Full Monty. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/39 "2015-05-19T22:28:08Z")
Reviving my own thread to say that I’m disappointed in you guys: nobody came up with “going to the mattresses”! ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/40 "2015-05-20T00:41:24Z")
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