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take a shellacking
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Be soundly beaten or defeated, as in Our team took quite a shellacking last night . Why being coated with shellac should suggest defeat is not clear. [ Slang ; c. 1930]Advertisement
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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