kick ass and take names

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic,US,Canada,vulgar,colloquial)To beat someone in acompetition,fight, or other situation.1987, Pat Conroy,The Lords of Discipline, page394:Wekick ass and take namesand call muster.1990, David H. Hackworth, Julie Sherman,About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior, page217:Hell, I thought, if I were wearing that star, I'dkick ass and take namesand have this place turned upside down in a week.2012, Robert Fitzpatrick,Betrayal, page17:“Fitz,” Assistant Director Roy McKinnon said the day he summoned me to his office at headquarters in Washington in late 1980, “we need an Irishman to go to Boston tokick ass and take names.”

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