have someone on
‘that's just too neat—you're having me on’
SYNONYMS
play a trick on, play a joke on, joke with, trick, tease, rag, pull someone's leg, fool about, fool around
informal kid, rib, take the mickey out of, make a monkey out of, take for a ride, lead up the garden path
British informal wind up
North American informal put on, pull someone's chain
British vulgar slang take the piss out of
dated make sport of
have it in for
‘he's had it in for me since I started seeing Gwen’
SYNONYMS
be hostile to, feel ill will towards, show ill will towards, show antagonism to, bear a grudge towards, be against, be set against, be prejudiced against, disapprove of
persecute, pick on, push about, push around, lean on, bully, abuse, discriminate against, ill-treat, mistreat, maltreat, harass, hound, torment, terrorize, torture, punish unfairly
informal have a down on, be down on, give someone a hard time, hassle, needle, get on someone's back, make things hot for someone
have something on
1‘she had a blue dress on’
SYNONYMS
be wearing, be dressed in, be clothed in, be garbed in, be attired in, be turned out in, be decked out in, be tricked out in, be robed in
archaic be apparelled in
2‘I have got a lot on at the moment’
SYNONYMS
be committed to, have arranged, have planned, have organized, have fixed up, have on the agenda, have made arrangements for
let someone have it
1‘as soon as you see the enemy, let them have it!’
SYNONYMS
attack, assault, beat, beat up, batter, thrash, pound, pummel, assail, set upon, fall upon, strike at, let fly at, tear into, lash out at
informal jump, paste, do over, work over, knock about, knock around, rough up, lay into, lace into, sail into, pitch into, get stuck into, beat the living daylights out of
British informal set about, have a go at, duff someone up
North American informal beat up on, light into
2‘she let me have it, in a stream of obscenities’
SYNONYMS
scold, rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reprove, admonish, remonstrate with, chastise, chide, upbraid, berate, take to task, pull up, castigate, lambast, read someone the Riot Act, give someone a piece of one's mind, go on at, haul over the coals, criticize, censure
informal tell off, give someone a talking-to, give someone a telling-off, dress down, give someone a dressing-down, give someone an earful, give someone a roasting, give someone a rocket, give someone a rollicking, rap, rap over the knuckles, slap someone's wrist, send someone away with a flea in their ear, bawl out, give someone hell, come down on, blow up, pitch into, lay into, lace into, give someone a caning, put on the mat, slap down, blast, rag, keelhaul
British informal tick off, have a go at, carpet, monster, give someone a mouthful, tear someone off a strip, give someone what for, give someone some stick, wig, give someone a wigging, give someone a row, row
North American informal chew out, ream out, take to the woodshed
British vulgar slang bollock, give someone a bollocking, tear someone a new arsehole, rip someone a new arsehole
North American vulgar slang chew someone's ass, ream someone's ass, tear someone a new asshole, rip someone a new asshole
dated call down, rate, give someone a rating, trim
rare reprehend, objurgate
have nothing on
‘I am not worried—they've got nothing on me’
SYNONYMS
have no evidence against, know nothing bad about, know nothing damning about, have no incriminating information about
have had it
1‘in private they admit that they've had it’
SYNONYMS
have no chance, have no hope, have failed, be finished, be out, be defeated, have lost, have no chance of success, have come to nothing
have flopped, have bitten the dust, have come a cropper
2‘if you ever let this information get out to the public, you've had it’
SYNONYMS
be in trouble, be going to be punished, be going to suffer the consequences, be going to pay the price, be in for a scolding, be going to answer for something
be for it, be for the high jump, be in hot water, be in deep water, be in shtook, be in deep shtook, be going to take the rap, be going to catch it
have it off
‘Steph had it off with Tony while he was going out with Lani’
SYNONYMS
have sex, have sexual intercourse, make love, sleep together, sleep with, go to bed together, go to bed with
mate
informal do it, do the business, go all the way, make whoopee, have one's way with, bed, know in the biblical sense, tumble
British informal bonk, get one's oats
North American informal boff, get it on
euphemistic be intimate
vulgar slang fuck, screw, bang, lay, get one's leg over, shaft, dick, frig, do, have, hump, poke, shtup, dip one's wick, ride, service
British vulgar slang shag, knob, get one's end away, knock someone off, give someone one, roger, grind, stuff, tup
Scottish vulgar slang podger
North American vulgar slang ball, jump, jump someone's bones, bone, pork, diddle, nail
Australian, New Zealand vulgar slang root
formal copulate
archaic fornicate, possess, lie together, lie with, couple, swive, know