"give someone what for" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gives someone what for",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "giving someone what for",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gave someone what for",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "given someone what for",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "give<,,gave,given> someone what for",
        "head": "give someone what for"
      },
      "expansion": "give someone what for (third-person singular simple present gives someone what for, present participle giving someone what for, simple past gave someone what for, past participle given someone what for)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Wilbur Smith, The Sound of Thunder, page 135",
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1912, Edward Burke, Bachelor's Buttons: The Candid Confessions of a Shy Bachelor, page 133",
          "text": "... 'e gived 'em up, an' repented somethin' horrid — there still bein' the buns to come — but Miss Soapy she gave 'im what- for-proper, she did!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To punish; to rebuke."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "punish",
          "punish"
        ],
        [
          "rebuke",
          "rebuke"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, slang) To punish; to rebuke."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "give someone a piece of one's mind"
        },
        {
          "word": "let someone have it"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "slang"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to punish or rebuke",
          "word": "dát někomu co proto"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to punish or rebuke",
          "word": "dát někomu na frak"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to punish or rebuke",
          "word": "natrhnout někomu sako"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
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      "text": "Audio (AU)"
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  "word": "give someone what for"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gives someone what for",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "giving someone what for",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gave someone what for",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "given someone what for",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "give<,,gave,given> someone what for",
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      },
      "expansion": "give someone what for (third-person singular simple present gives someone what for, present participle giving someone what for, simple past gave someone what for, past participle given someone what for)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Wilbur Smith, The Sound of Thunder, page 135",
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1912, Edward Burke, Bachelor's Buttons: The Candid Confessions of a Shy Bachelor, page 133",
          "text": "... 'e gived 'em up, an' repented somethin' horrid — there still bein' the buns to come — but Miss Soapy she gave 'im what- for-proper, she did!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To punish; to rebuke."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "punish",
          "punish"
        ],
        [
          "rebuke",
          "rebuke"
        ]
      ],
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        "(idiomatic, slang) To punish; to rebuke."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
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      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "give someone a piece of one's mind"
    },
    {
      "word": "let someone have it"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to punish or rebuke",
      "word": "dát někomu co proto"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to punish or rebuke",
      "word": "dát někomu na frak"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to punish or rebuke",
      "word": "natrhnout někomu sako"
    }
  ],
  "word": "give someone what for"
}