See give someone what for on Wiktionary
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"text": "She gave him what for all right. But you could see she was ever so pleased and she went around telling everybody about it.",
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"text": "2002, Joss Whedon, \"The Ballad of Jayne Cobb\" in \"Jaynestown\", Firefly.\nHe robbed from the rich, and he gave to the poor / Stood up to The Man and he gave him what for."
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"ref": "1912, Edward Burke, Bachelor's Buttons: The Candid Confessions of a Shy Bachelor, page 133:",
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"word": "dát někomu co proto"
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