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3. Juli 2015 · kick ass: 1 to be especially energetic and exciting; to succeed by your vigorous efforts. "Kick arse" and "kick butt" are common variations. US, 1979. 2 to use force, to beat up US, 1962. As you can see, beat is closer to the first sense but beat up is closer to the second sense.
BigBoy1337. 553 3 6 9. Kicking butt is just as impolite as kicking ass. – ab2. Mar 16, 2018 at 19:10. giving me a hard time is one colloquial alternative.... – Lambie. Mar 16, 2018 at 19:12. depending on the context you could use "knocking them down" or "knocking it out of the park".
24. März 2011 · kick ass {or (euphem[istically]} butt or tail} 1. Esp. Esp. Mil[itary] to enforce one's authority or otherwise enforce oneself mercilessly or pugnaciously; (also) (prob. the orig. sense) to subdue others by beatings; (hence) to play the bully; in phr. kick ass and take names to do so with great determination or success.—also used fig.—usu. considered vulgar.
13. Apr. 2017 · It appears ass kicking itself dates back to the early '40s and the phrase having as much chance as a one-legged man in a mule/butt/ass-kicking contest. The similar expression kick in the pants dates to the late 1800s. Edit 4/15/11: I just antedated the 1965 reference by 11 years. This is from John Oliver Killens' 1954 novel Youngblood:
21. Aug. 2011 · I'm going to kick your behind. From NOAD: behind noun. 1 informal the buttocks: sitting on her behind. Still softer would be. derrière |ˌderēˈe (ə)r|. noun informal. euphemistic term for a person's buttocks. If you want to go softer than that, perhaps you had better leave off altogether the notion of "kicking" anything.
16. Jan. 2019 · As mentioned, the idiom is kick ass and take names. It's simply used to describe somebody's behaviour—not their profession or pastime. Nor does it describe doing something well. It just means not putting up with something, doing something to correct the behaviour, and making a note of the offenders. –
I don't think the two phrases (kick ass, take names; shoot first, question later) are related, but it seems the two have often been confused and combined. A search will turn up several different mashups of the two phrases. See my answer to What is the etymology of “…kick ass and take names”? for earliest uses of that phrase.
29. Aug. 2015 · 1. The phrase "Your Team is kicking serious butt" is generally used as a softer, more workplace appropriate way, of saying "Your team is kicking serious ass." The phrase "kick ass" is a longstanding idiom that generally means someone is doing something really well, excelling, or, in your case, being awesome.
"Yes, he needs a good kick in the pants." It stands to reason, then, that "boot" can be substituted for "kick," since that's the net result, when the one doing the kicking happens to be wearing boots. He himself felt sorry for the people who were in horrible pain, but some need the good boot in the ass.
26. Feb. 2023 · Kick in the pants: This is slightly more polite than "kick in the ass" Kick up the backside: This AFAIK is only used in British English. It is more polite than "kick up the arse" (also British English). In general the word "arse" in BrE, although meaning the same thing, is used less and considered much more coarse than the US "ass".
