beat someone into shape

hire

person working for someone else, employee

to fix, to repair / to change, to alter / to correct, to make proper / to redo something

team

to hit; to strike; to beat; to paddle (to spank with a paddle) / to criticize; to verbally abuse or attack / to play (drums); to beat / to clap (hands) / (programming) to call (an API)

to use up money

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend