put the boot in
informalto kick someone when they are already on the ground
to make a bad situation worse, by criticizing or being unkind:
After he lost his job, his wife put the boot in by announcing she was leaving him.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Hitting and beating
- a bunch of fives idiom
- a rap on/over the knuckles idiom
- at-risk
- bang up sb/sth
- bashing
- bunch
- conk
- deck
- hell
- kick
- knock
- knock sb's block off idiom
- lay
- lay sb out
- licking
- mess sb up
- pound
- pummel
- swing
- thump
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Disapproving & criticizing