bite the curb
English
Verb
bite the curb (third-person singular simple present bites the curb, present participle biting the curb, simple past bit the curb, past participle bitten the curb)
- (colloquial, idiomatic) To be curb stomped.
- Watch out those crazy skinheads! They made someone bite the curb the other night.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bite, the, curb.
- 2013 November 12, Shehu Sani, Hatred for Black People, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 348:
- Having someone bite the curb and kicking him in the back of the head is a painful way to kill someone. Often, as in the movie American History X, it is used as punishment for insubordinate blacks.
- 1911, Martin Christinius Grimsgaard, Original Handbook for Riders: A Complete Guide to Modern Horsemanship:
- If the horse be in the bad habit of taking the arms of the curb-bit between his teeth (bite the curb), a small strap (lip-strap) may be placed between the arms and through the extra ring on the curb-chain.