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单词 tear someone off a strip (or tear a strip off someone)
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tear someone off a strip (or tear a strip off someone)

British informal Rebuke someone angrily: when he realized it was all a put-up job he tore a strip off Julie...
  • There's the part when Borchardt is dumped by his girlfriend, the part where his ex-wife tears a strip off him, the part where Uncle Bill is too weak to get out of the bath on his own.
  • Might be home earlier than usual though, so feel free to tear me off a strip.
  • I was going to tear a strip off them for being unpatriotic when our political corr revealed it was simply their own anti-gay protest because the anthem has been hijacked by the likes of Graham Norton.

Synonyms

reprimand, rebuke, scold, admonish, reprove, upbraid, chastise, chide, censure, castigate, lambaste, berate, lecture, criticize, take to task, read the Riot Act 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 a piece of one's mind, give someone an earful, give someone a roasting, give someone a rocket, give someone a rollicking
British informal have a go at, carpet, give someone what for, let someone have it
North American informal chew out, ream out
British vulgar slang bollock, give someone a bollocking
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