He'll skin you alive for being late for five minutes.
如果你迟到5分钟，他就会严厉申斥你。
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Your father will skin you alive.
你父亲会活剥了你的皮的。
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Hauled aboard, the body turns out to be alive, to have two bullet wounds and to have a capsule embedded under the skin, which contains the code to a Swiss bank account.