acabar com alguém (por algo) bite/snap someone's head (for something)

Creator:	Marcelo Gonçalves
Language pair:	Portugisiska till Engelska
Discipline:	-
Definition / notes:	...Scold or speak very angrily to someone, as in Ask her to step down from the board? She'd bite my head off! The first expression, dating from the mid-1900s, replaced the much earlier bite someone's nose off (16th century); the variant was first recorded in 1886.
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