英语词汇“read someone the Riot Act”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

read someone the Riot Act

British Give someone a severe warning or reprimand: he read the riot act to his players after hauling them in for extra training...

‘Michael has a reputation for reading the Riot Act to civil servants.’
The upshot was that the Mayor read the Riot Act and the they postponed their get-together until the following month.
Up came the men in yellow and orange to read the Riot Act and cast a threatening cloud.

Synonyms

reprimand, rebuke, scold, admonish, reprove, upbraid, chastise, chide, censure, castigate, lambaste, berate, lecture, criticize, take to task, give a piece of one's mind to, haul over the coals

informal tell off, give someone a telling-off, dress down, give someone a dressing-down, bawl out, pitch into, lay into, lace into, blow up at, give someone an earful, give someone a roasting, give someone a rocket, give someone a rollicking

British informal have a go at, carpet, tear someone off a strip, give someone what for, let someone have it

North American informal chew out, ream out

British vulgar slang bollock, give someone a bollocking

See parent entry: Riot Act

单词	read someone the Riot Act
释义	read someone the Riot Act British Give someone a severe warning or reprimand: he read the riot act to his players after hauling them in for extra training... ‘Michael has a reputation for reading the Riot Act to civil servants.’ The upshot was that the Mayor read the Riot Act and the they postponed their get-together until the following month. Up came the men in yellow and orange to read the Riot Act and cast a threatening cloud. Synonyms reprimand, rebuke, scold, admonish, reprove, upbraid, chastise, chide, censure, castigate, lambaste, berate, lecture, criticize, take to task, give a piece of one's mind to, haul over the coals informal tell off, give someone a telling-off, dress down, give someone a dressing-down, bawl out, pitch into, lay into, lace into, blow up at, give someone an earful, give someone a roasting, give someone a rocket, give someone a rollicking British informal have a go at, carpet, tear someone off a strip, give someone what for, let someone have it North American informal chew out, ream out British vulgar slang bollock, give someone a bollocking See parent entry: Riot Act
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