Shame it out of somebody/someone (meaning)

Posted by ESC on February 17, 2005

In Reply to: Shame it out of somebody/someone (meaning) posted by Matterson on February 17, 2005

: shame it out of somebody/someone (meaning)

: can this be related to disgrace or humiliate somebody/someone?

: any input will be appreciated

"He was going to make his grandmother pay him for yardwork. But the family shamed him out of it." They made him feel really embarrassed about it and he changed his course of action.