Bet inta a pulp

phr.

Heard in Tipperary

To be beaten severely, typically to the point of sustaining significant injury.

In use

Jaysus he was bet inta a pulp

Posh English

Good heavens, the fellow had been thoroughly pummelled into a pulp.

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