dress down
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dress down
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From analogy with dress up.
verb dresses down · dressing down · dressed down
- To scold. One night – it was 2.30am – he dressed down a graduate, screaming in her face: “Are you stupid? Are you a fucking stupid cunt?” I had never seen anything like it in a workplace, or on TV, and I haven’t since.
- To wear casual or informal clothes.
- To prepare (caught fish) by gutting them, removing the heads and backbones, etc. Dan could bait up trawl or lay his hand on any rope in the dark; and at a pinch, when Uncle Salters had a gurry-sore on his palm, could dress down by sense of touch.
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verb to scold
| Italiano | dare una strigliata a qualcuno, strigliare un cavallo |
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