tear a strip off someone
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tear a strip off someone
verb tears a strip off someone · tearing a strip off someone · tore a strip off someone · torn a strip off someone · tear someone off a strip · tear strips off someone
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To scold vigorously.
Last night the honourable member for Miramar was going to tear a strip off the Minister of Works;[…].
Similar: excoriate, give someone a dressing-down, haul someone over the coals, rake over the coals, read someone the riot act, tell someone off
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verb scold vigorously
| Français | engueuler, engueuler comme du poisson pourri |
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| Deutsch | heftig beschimpfen, ordentlich die Meinung sagen, eine Standpauke halten, herunterputzen |
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