"chew up and spit out" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "chews up and spits out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chewing up and spitting out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chewed up and spat out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chewed up and spat out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chewed up and spit out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chewed up and spit out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "chew<> up and spit<,,spat:spit> out",
        "head": "chew up and spit out"
      },
      "expansion": "chew up and spit out (third-person singular simple present chews up and spits out, present participle chewing up and spitting out, simple past and past participle chewed up and spat out or chewed up and spit out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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            "Terms by etymology"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Jerry Walker, Get Up and Get Moving, page 36:",
          "text": "They will chew you up and spit you out unless you come to the war fully prepared, armed and ready with the intentions of winning the war.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Angie Caterson, The Polka Dots and the Greedy Venture: Book 6: Spirits of Australia:",
          "text": "[…] all he could see was a huge gaping mouth of swirling, churning water ready to chew him up and spit him out.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To deal with (a person) harshly and abruptly."
      ],
      "id": "en-chew_up_and_spit_out-en-verb-50fP0g43",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To deal with (a person) harshly and abruptly."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chew up and spit out"
}

{
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    {
      "form": "chews up and spits out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chewing up and spitting out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chewed up and spat out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chewed up and spat out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chewed up and spit out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chewed up and spit out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "chew<> up and spit<,,spat:spit> out",
        "head": "chew up and spit out"
      },
      "expansion": "chew up and spit out (third-person singular simple present chews up and spits out, present participle chewing up and spitting out, simple past and past participle chewed up and spat out or chewed up and spit out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English transitive verbs",
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        "Pages with 1 entry",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Jerry Walker, Get Up and Get Moving, page 36:",
          "text": "They will chew you up and spit you out unless you come to the war fully prepared, armed and ready with the intentions of winning the war.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Angie Caterson, The Polka Dots and the Greedy Venture: Book 6: Spirits of Australia:",
          "text": "[…] all he could see was a huge gaping mouth of swirling, churning water ready to chew him up and spit him out.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To deal with (a person) harshly and abruptly."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To deal with (a person) harshly and abruptly."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chew up and spit out"
}