Usage of "tongue-lashing"

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Rebuking a person harshly.

Uso de tongue-lashing em inglês

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

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

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

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

Edd gave them a tongue-lashing and thrashing at one and the same time. 
 Tales of lonely trails 

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

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

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

The tongue-lashing had been just what they needed, as Betty very well knew. 
 The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle; Or, The Girl Miner of Gold Run 

Let the kid have it with a tongue-lashing of your own. 
 Have a new kid by friday: how to change your child's attitude, b... 

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

You have come to get a right nice little woman's tongue-lashing. 
 Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, / 2... 

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

I gave him a tongue-lashing such as he has never before received from me. 
 The diary of mattie spenser 

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

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

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Translations for tongue-lashing

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Tongue-lashing ao longo do tempo

Significados de tongue-lashing em inglês