Whup the tar out of

Meaning

A hyperbolic way to describe winning a fight or decisively beating someone in a contest. It implies a very thorough defeat, though it is rarely literal.

Aggressive, folksy

Used in a sentence

• Our team is going to whup the tar out of their rivals tonight.
• My dad used to say if I broke the window, he would whup the tar out of me.
• We really whupped the tar out of them in that poker game.