"tan someone's hide" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "By metaphor from tannery: beating hides (to condition them), tanning them (with dyes and chemicals), and so on.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tans someone's hide",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tanning someone's hide",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tanned someone's hide",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tanned someone's hide",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1908, Stewart Edward White, chapter 12, in The Adventures of Bobby Orde:",
          "text": "\"You lying little snipe,\" he roared. \". . . I've a mind to tan your hide good.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To beat or spank someone."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "beat",
          "beat"
        ],
        [
          "spank",
          "spank"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, figurative) To beat or spank someone."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "have someone's hide"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "word": "tan someone's hide"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "By metaphor from tannery: beating hides (to condition them), tanning them (with dyes and chemicals), and so on.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tans someone's hide",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tanning someone's hide",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tanned someone's hide",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tanned someone's hide",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "tan someone's hide (third-person singular simple present tans someone's hide, present participle tanning someone's hide, simple past and past participle tanned someone's hide)",
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    }
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  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1908, Stewart Edward White, chapter 12, in The Adventures of Bobby Orde:",
          "text": "\"You lying little snipe,\" he roared. \". . . I've a mind to tan your hide good.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To beat or spank someone."
      ],
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        [
          "beat",
          "beat"
        ],
        [
          "spank",
          "spank"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, figurative) To beat or spank someone."
      ],
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        "figuratively",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "have someone's hide"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tan someone's hide"
}