Eat the face off
Heard in Waterford
To severely criticise, lambast or rebuke someone.
When I told the teacher I hadn't me ecker done, he ate me." "When I only apologised, because if I didn't she'd ate the face off me.
When I informed the teacher I had not completed my homework he gave me a fearful dressing down. When I merely apologised, because if I had not she would have given me a fearful dressing down.