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put the boot in (or into someone)British informal 1Kick someone hard when they are on the ground: they crash his bulk to the floor and put the boot in...- So let's put the boot in hard and unrelentingly.
- One of the most endearing things about him is that when he's got one of his enemies down on the ground, and he's really put the boot in, he doesn't stop.
- In other words, nobody to get worked up about if the skinheads decided to put the boot in.
1.1Treat someone vulnerable in a cruel way: the move was just another way of putting the boot in...- And, putting the boot in, they described his advisers as ‘a miserable bunch’ and said that ‘unless they grasp this issue they will lose the election’.
- He is such a nice man that one hesitates to put the boot in.
- It is a position where all parties come away with their own victories and do not see the other party putting the boot in and taking all the profit themselves at their expense.
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