הֶאֱכִיל אוֹתוֹ חָצָץ, מִלֵּא פִּיו חָצָץ

ביטוי (אנגלית)

He made him eat gravel/ filled his mouth with gravel/ to crush someone/ to make him eat dirt (lit. gravel)

הגדרה (אנגלית)

By metaphor: caused him trouble. Made him suffer. Or: subdued or silenced him (gravel signifies broken stones).

("Who gives man false bread, and after that fills his mouth with gravel" - Proverbs 20:17, and likewise: "And the sons of wrong shall no more speak perversely against us; for he shall fight our battles, and fill their mouth with gravel" - Abraham Mapu / The Painted Eagle, 11)