Usually means: Displace frustration onto someone else.
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  1. take it out on: Merriam-Webster
  2. take it out on: Wiktionary
  3. take it out on: Dictionary.com
  4. take it out on: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (take it out on)

verb:  (idiomatic) To unleash one's anger on (a person or thing other than the one that caused it).

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