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Phrase(s): lace into someone or something [and] light into someone or something
Fig. to attack, devour, or scold someone or something. • We laced into a big meal of pork and beans. • The bully punched John once, and then John really laced into him. • John lit into him with both fists., Phrase(s): lace someone into something
to tighten the laces of something someone is wearing. • Sally helped Billy lace himself into his boots. • The maid laced Gloria into her corset.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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Also, light into. Attack, assail, as in He laced into me for arriving late, or She lit into him for forgetting the tickets. The first of these colloquial terms employs lace in the sense of "beat up or thrash," a usage dating from the late 1500s. The idiom with light dates from the late 1800s and stems from the verb meaning "descend."
American Heritage Idioms