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View synonyms for lace into
lace into
verb
- intr, preposition to attack violently, either verbally or physically
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Also, light into . Attack, assail, as in He laced into me for arriving late , or She lit into him for forgetting the tickets . The first of these colloquial terms employs lace in the sense of “beat up or thrash,” a usage dating from the late 1500s. The idiom with light dates from the late 1800s and stems from the verb meaning “descend.”Advertisement
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