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Old 06-27-2017, 06:16 AM   #2
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Bear in mind that I am not a native speaker. (Grade 2 CSE German, 1980)

Literally: "You want to be thrashed black and blue!"

It almost works in English just like that, although using want in the sense of "being in need of" as a verb is archaic or possibly wrong in English.

Perhaps simply "You need to be beaten black and blue" or even "You should be beaten black and blue".

(Interesting that "black and blue" means the same in English and German.)
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