dust down
(slang) To clean (someone) off who has fallen.
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(slang) To clean (someone) off who has fallen.
He was on the ground, so I helped him up, dusted him down and brought him home.
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(slang) To demean or verbally assault; to dress down.
He was on the ground, so I helped him up, dusted him down and brought him home.
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Archaic British slang meaning to give someone a beating or thrashing. The phrase uses the humorous pretence of 'dusting' a jacket — knocking the dust out of it — as a euphemism for punching and hitting someone. It belongs to the colourful vocabulary of 19th-century slang for physical punishment.