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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 6:41 am
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LeisureFirst
 
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Originally Posted by Teece
'What for' is a colloquialism for some form of punishment/chastisement. So to give someone what for for something is fine in my book.
Thank you for that. In that case, I apologize. But I can't say I am at all familiar with that expression, although I have managed to find it in a dictionary after several attempts. Why have I not come across it before?
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