chew up and spit out

English

Verb

chew up and spit out (third-person singular simple present chews up and spits out, present participle chewing up and spitting out, simple past and past participle chewed up and spat out or chewed up and spit out)

1. (transitive) To deal with (a person) harshly and abruptly.
   • 2007, Jerry Walker, Get Up and Get Moving, page 36:

     They will chew you up and spit you out unless you come to the war fully prepared, armed and ready with the intentions of winning the war.

   • 2015, Angie Caterson, The Polka Dots and the Greedy Venture: Book 6: Spirits of Australia:

     […] all he could see was a huge gaping mouth of swirling, churning water ready to chew him up and spit him out.