英语词汇“tell someone off”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

tell someone off

1 informal Reprimand or scold someone: my parents told me off for coming home late...

Somehow he could never tell her off or scold her when she looked at him like that.
Richard tends to be much stricter with Lucie in general and is fed up of being the bad guy who tells Lucie off and reprimands her.
Teachers' leaders are now calling for a ban on mobile phones in the classroom because children are using them to text message or speak to their parents as soon as they have been told off.

Synonyms

reprimand, rebuke, reproach, scold, admonish, reprove, remonstrate with, chastise, chide, upbraid, berate, take to task, pull up, castigate, lambaste, read someone the Riot Act, give someone a piece of one's mind, haul over the coals, criticize, censure

informal give someone a talking-to, give someone a telling-off, dress down, give someone a dressing-down, give someone an earful, give someone a roasting, give someone a rocket, give someone a rollicking, rap, rap someone over the knuckles, slap someone's wrist, let someone have it, bawl out, give someone hell, come down on, blow up, pitch into, lay into, lace into, give someone a caning, blast, rag, keelhaul

British informal tick off, have a go at, carpet, monster, give someone a mouthful, tear someone off a strip, give someone what for, wig, give someone a wigging, give someone a row, row

North American informal chew out, ream out

British vulgar slang bollock, give someone a bollocking

North American vulgar slang chew someone's ass, ream someone's ass

dated call down, rate, give someone a rating, trim

rare reprehend, objurgate

2 archaic Assign a member of a group to a particular task: there used to be a chap told off every day to fetch us beer...

I was told off to work in the trenches.
A subaltern and a sergeant were told off to supervise each platoon, any spare officers taking up positions in the rear of the battalion line.
We were then told off to various points on the outskirts of the village.

See parent entry: tell

单词	tell someone off
释义	tell someone off 1 informal Reprimand or scold someone: my parents told me off for coming home late... Somehow he could never tell her off or scold her when she looked at him like that. Richard tends to be much stricter with Lucie in general and is fed up of being the bad guy who tells Lucie off and reprimands her. Teachers' leaders are now calling for a ban on mobile phones in the classroom because children are using them to text message or speak to their parents as soon as they have been told off. Synonyms reprimand, rebuke, reproach, scold, admonish, reprove, remonstrate with, chastise, chide, upbraid, berate, take to task, pull up, castigate, lambaste, read someone the Riot Act, give someone a piece of one's mind, haul over the coals, criticize, censure informal give someone a talking-to, give someone a telling-off, dress down, give someone a dressing-down, give someone an earful, give someone a roasting, give someone a rocket, give someone a rollicking, rap, rap someone over the knuckles, slap someone's wrist, let someone have it, bawl out, give someone hell, come down on, blow up, pitch into, lay into, lace into, give someone a caning, blast, rag, keelhaul British informal tick off, have a go at, carpet, monster, give someone a mouthful, tear someone off a strip, give someone what for, wig, give someone a wigging, give someone a row, row North American informal chew out, ream out British vulgar slang bollock, give someone a bollocking North American vulgar slang chew someone's ass, ream someone's ass dated call down, rate, give someone a rating, trim rare reprehend, objurgate 2 archaic Assign a member of a group to a particular task: there used to be a chap told off every day to fetch us beer... I was told off to work in the trenches. A subaltern and a sergeant were told off to supervise each platoon, any spare officers taking up positions in the rear of the battalion line. We were then told off to various points on the outskirts of the village. See parent entry: tell
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