battre à plate couture — meaning in English
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English meaning
- thrash verb To beat someone severely, or to defeat an opponent decisively.
Senses
battre à plate couture is used for these senses in English:
- beat to a pulp (transitive, colloquial, loosely) To defeat severely in various, even non-contact, competitive sports.
- clean someone's clock (idiomatic, informal) To defeat someone decisively, in a physical fight or other competition or negotiation.
- thrash To defeat utterly.
- wipe the floor with someone (slang, idiomatic) To be well ahead of someone, or to win a competition by a considerable margin over someone.
thrash — full definition
- verb To beat someone severely, or to defeat an opponent decisively.
- verb To move about wildly and violently.
- verb To subject a computer system to heavy, repeated demands for memory, causing it to slow down badly.