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单词 call-down
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call-down
call-down n. U.S. colloquial (now rare) a rebuke, a scolding, a ‘dressing down’; cf. to call down 4 at call v. Phrasal verbs 1.
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1893 Washington Post 8 Aug. 6/3 Uncle Anson was querulous and Umpire Hurst gave him a call down.
1908 Retail Clerks Internat. Advocate Jan. 16/1 The worse part about these call-downs was the fact that they occurred at a time when the house was crowded with customers.
1917 P. G. Wodehouse Man with Two Left Feet 121 The feller that tries to get gay with me is going to get a call-down that'll make him holler for his winter overcoat.
1957 J. Kerouac On the Road xi. 61 His girl Lee Ann had a bad tongue and gave him a calldown every day.
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