to take out back
6
9.6
- phrasal verb
- Offensive
- They gonna take you out back and bury your ass.
Examples
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You, sir, are one of those people who in the old days would be taken out back of the woodshed and come back with a little more sense!
Blog text (2) -
"Monty, I can't take you out back when I'm angry."
Fiction book (1993) -
Let's take me out back and beat the crap out of me!
Blog text (15) -
Jaime heard them talking about taking you out back.
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Man, they're gonna take me out back too.
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They're gonna take you out back tonight.
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At noon, another load of raccoons comes in, and Claude takes them out back of the office and executes them with a tire iron.
Fiction book (1993) -
We'll take out back our differences in private instead of arguing in front of everyone.
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If they don't settle this argument, they might take out back to resolve it with a fight.
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He decided to take out back the two guys who were bothering his friend.
Antonyms
How Violent
- NSFW
∞
3.0
- Offensive
6
9.6
- Offensive
451
4.1
- Offensive
43
7.3
515
3.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
The literal meanings of 'take' + 'out' + 'back' (escort/move someone away to the back or outside) make the basic idea of moving someone to a private place directly derivable. However, the specific implication that this move is to resolve a dispute—often by a fight or violent settling—is an extended, culturally-specific inference not fully predictable from the constituents alone, so the phrase is only partially transparent to learners.
Etymology
Take out back comes from the image of someone being led out to the back of a shop or restaurant to sort out a problem away from other people. That's why it now means 'to resolve a dispute privately', often by a physical fight.