Talk:wipe the floor

RFM discussion: October 2018–November 2022

The following discussion has been moved from Wiktionary:Requests for moves, mergers and splits (permalink).

This discussion is no longer live and is left here as an archive. Please do not modify this conversation, but feel free to discuss its conclusions.

---

wipe the floor but mop the floor with someone

Which is better? Per utramque cavernam 11:46, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

I'd say the latter: I have never heard wipe the floor without with (though the entry suggests it's possible; is it?). Equinox ◑ 11:49, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

I'd prefer mop, but Google NGram favors wipe to mop 5:2. DCDuring (talk) 14:16, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

The question here is whether to include "...with someone" in the entry title. Equinox ◑ 14:18, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

I ignored the page it was on. I thought it was a TR question.

I think Lambian suggested that someone is sometimes useful to distinguish an idiom from literal use (eg, of wipe/mop the floor with a sponge-mop) without some of the ambiguities of an entry without someone, even with {{&lit}}. DCDuring (talk) 14:33, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

I propose moving wipe the floor to wipe the floor with someone and defining mop the floor with someone as a synonym. clean someone's clock could also be defined as a synonym. - excarnateSojourner (talk|contrib) 06:20, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

• Moved per vague consensus GreyishWorm (talk) 23:16, 2 November 2022 (UTC)