# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/41 "2015-05-20T01:52:46Z")
Curb stomp Open a can 'o whup-ass Moidalize ‘em (spoken in an early 1950s Brooklyn Bugs Bunny voice) MMA got nuthin’ on us! Pull on the heavy gloves ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/42 "2015-05-20T01:57:21Z")
Punctuate his equilibrium. ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/43 "2015-05-20T02:26:06Z")
Rock the Casbah! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/44 "2015-05-20T02:29:49Z")
I’ll paddle your canoe! ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/45 "2015-05-20T02:30:33Z")
Run out of gum. From Duke Nukem’s famous line" I came here to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And I’m all out of gum" ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/46 "2015-05-20T02:37:47Z")
> [@boffking](#): > > Run out of gum. > From Duke Nukem’s famous line" I came here to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And I’m all out of gum" [Roddy Piper said it three years before Duke Nukem was invented](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp_K8prLfso). 😉 ---
**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 20, 2015, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/47 "2015-05-20T18:26:59Z")
We also missed: Use the Force. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/48 "2015-05-20T18:31:15Z")
Show 'em how it’s done. And (these are from an X-Men comic from years ago): Let’s press his pants! Let’s cancel his ticket! ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/49 "2015-05-20T20:44:19Z")
Stwike them, centuwion. Stwike them vewy woughly. Wegawds, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/50 "2015-05-26T17:20:11Z")
Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war! ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/51 "2015-05-26T17:51:03Z")
I like “administer a beatdown” best. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/52 "2015-05-26T20:14:07Z")
Brian Daley had a character, a woman with a pronounced southern accent, say “Can you 'scuse a lady while she toe-asses some butt?” (The woman in question was nine feet tall, it should be noted.) ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/53 "2015-05-27T01:56:28Z")
I come, I fuck shit up, I leave. I’m taking names. I’m gonna ruin your day. take you to school teach you some respect ---
**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 27, 2015, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657/54 "2015-05-27T02:41:29Z")
I like “let slip the dogs of war”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-euphemisms-for-kick-some-ass/716657.md?page=2)