take it out on | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)To unleash one's anger on(a person or thing other than the one that caused it).Synonym:look for a dog to kickDon'ttake it out onyour husband if you had trouble with your boss at work.

Examples:

EN: "You better go to her immediately, or she'll take it out on me."
ES: "Será mejor que vayas con ella inmediatamente, de lo contrario, se desquitará conmigo."
EN: - You take it out on me, eh?
ES: - Te desquitas conmigo, ¿eh?
EN: Why should that being take it out on poor inoffensive Fai Lu?
ES: ¿Por qué tuvo que tomarla con la pobre e inofensiva Fai Lu?
EN: - I had to take it out on somebody.
ES: - Tenía que desahogarme con alguien.
EN: - Him? I've a notion to give him a piece of my mind but I know he'd take it out on you.
ES: Tendría cosas que decirle a ése, pero luego la toma contigo.
EN: But it's their fight. Why take it out on yourselves? Why take it out on me?
ES: Y ¿por qué hacéis que lo pague yo?
ES: Y ¿por qué hacéis que lo pague yo?
EN: Well, don't take it out on the potatoes, just the skins.
ES: Bien, no peles las patatas, solo las cascas.
EN: But, Gertrude, just because Bobby and Rims came to a parting of the ways, must you take it out on me?
ES: Pero Gertrude... ¿Solo porque Bobby y Rims llegaron a una separación tienes que hacerme responsable?
EN: Don't take it out on the guy.
ES: No la tomes con él.
EN: I'm sorry, I didn't mean to take it out on you.
ES: Lo siento, no quería hacerte pagar el pato.
EN: All right, brother, but no funny business, or you're the first one I'll take it out on.
ES: Está bien, hermano, pero nada de bromas, o serás el primero con el que me desquite.
EN: If you want to take it out on somebody, take it out on the Japs, not yourself.
ES: Échale la culpa a los japoneses, pero no a ti.
ES: Échale la culpa a los japoneses, pero no a ti.
EN: And he's a crazy old man that gets angry about everything and will take it out on me!
ES: Es un viejo loco que se enoja por cualquier tontería... y descargará conmigo
EN: Sir, don't take it out on an amateur who found what the professionals couldn't.
ES: Un simple principiante ha encontrado lo que toda la comisaría no ha podido descubrir.
EN: Yes, and then they try to take it out on somebody else, eh?
ES: Sí, y luego lo pagan con los demás ¿eh?

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