hate someone's guts

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hate someone's guts (third-person singular simple present hates someone's guts, present participle hating someone's guts, simple past and past participle hated someone's guts)

  1. (idiomatic) To despise; to hate intensely or passionately.
    She caught him seeing another woman, and now she hates his guts.
    • 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
      “I am so, so sorry, Frank. I took a wrong turn in life. I made a mistake walking out, but I’ve had to live with it. I know I let you down, Frank. I bet you hate my guts.”
    • 2017 July 18, Daniel Dylan Wray, “‘It was like going into the trenches’: how Suicide rioted against plastic punk”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
      When the singer of a band is screaming, only eight minutes in, “I hate your fucking guts” over a sea of boos and chants of another artist’s name, it suggests the gig isn’t going so well.