dressing-downnoun [ S ]
uk/ˌdres.ɪŋˈdaʊn/us/ˌdres.ɪŋˈdaʊn/old-fashionedan act of speaking angrily to someone because they have done something wrong:
She gave me a dressing-down for being late.
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Chastising & rebuking
- admonition
- barracking
- bawl
- be in sb's face idiom
- beat yourself up
- bring
- carpet
- come down on sb like a ton of bricks idiom
- crucify
- keelhaul
- lambaste
- lay
- neck
- rebuke
- reprimand
- reproachful
- there'll be hell to pay idiom
- throw
- throw the book at sb idiom
- upbraid
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