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Definitions
strip the skin off
Word origin
From Middle English flayen, flaien, fleien, from Old English *flīeġan ("to cause to fly, put to flight, frighten"; found only in compounds: āflīeġan), from Proto-Germanic *flaugijaną (“to let fly, cause to fly”), causative of Proto-Germanic *fleuganą (“to fly”).
Used in a sentence
“If they'd let me have my way, I could have flayed him into shape”
“The farmer flayed him as he had the bear, and so he had both bear-skin and fox-skin.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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