give someone the business

“I hope you're right, Mike. I hope you aren't giving me the business.”

I grinned at him. “The only one who can get shafted is me.”

The Red Dean's utterances, as usual, got on some people's nerves. The irreverent New York Daily News gave him the business, in a full-column editorial, ending; "Nobody curbs these whizbangs in the United States or England, where they are free to be as nutty as their capacities will permit."