"mop the floor with someone" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-mop the floor with someone.ogg [Australia] Forms: mops the floor with someone [present, singular, third-person], mopping the floor with someone [participle, present], mopped the floor with someone [participle, past], mopped the floor with someone [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} mop the floor with someone (third-person singular simple present mops the floor with someone, present participle mopping the floor with someone, simple past and past participle mopped the floor with someone)
  1. (slang) To trounce or defeat thoroughly or in a humiliating manner. Tags: slang Synonyms: clean someone's clock, mop the floor with somebody, sweep the floor with somebody, sweep the floor with someone Translations (trounce or defeat thoroughly): écraser (French), თრევა (treva) (Georgian), ჩახევა (čaxeva) (Georgian), feltörli vele a padlót (Hungarian), 叩き伏せる (tataki-fuseru) (Japanese), разде́лать под оре́х (razdélatʹ pod oréx) (Russian), sopa golvet med någon (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-mop_the_floor_with_someone-en-verb-kpWQcPXl Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Georgian terms with redundant script codes

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