After he gave me a tongue-lashing he left for home with Barbara.

But this verdict also came with a firm tongue-lashing from the judiciary.

But I may say I'm not especially anxious for a tongue-lashing to-night.

How would his own three sons have reacted to such a tongue-lashing?

Edd gave them a tongue-lashing and thrashing at one and the same time.

I fear I will have a mighty tongue-lashing when I return.

By their grins, they guessed the young man was in for a tongue-lashing.

Zondiwe tries to help and gets a tongue-lashing for her trouble.

The tongue-lashing had been just what they needed, as Betty very well knew.

Let the kid have it with a tongue-lashing of your own.

Or that the guards wouldn't get the tongue-lashing of their lives later tonight.

You have come to get a right nice little woman's tongue-lashing.

There, they received a tongue-lashing behind the closed doors of the chief justice's chambers.

I gave him a tongue-lashing such as he has never before received from me.

Lucy gets a tongue-lashing for trying to help a friend.

Most of them are in for crimes that deserve no more than a tongue-lashing.