T
Idioms beginning with "T"
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[tan one's hide] {v. phr.}, {informal}
To give a beating to; spank hard.
Bob's father tanned his hide for staying out too late.
[taper down] {adj. phr.}
To decrease; reduce.
He has tapered down his drinking from three martinis to one beer a day.
[taper off] {v.}
1. To come to an end little by little; become smaller toward the end.
The river tapers off here and becomes a brook.
2. To stop a habit gradually; do something less and less often.
* /Robert gave up smoking all at once instead […]
[tar and feather] {v.}
To pour heated tar on and cover with feathers as a punishment.
In the Old West bad men were sometimes tarred and feathered and driven out of town.