tongue-lashingnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈtʌŋˌlæʃ.ɪŋ/us/ˈtʌŋˌlæʃ.ɪŋ/informalIf you give someone a tongue-lashing, you speak angrily to that person about something that they have done wrong:
He got a real tongue lashing after the game.
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Chastising & rebuking
- admonition
- barracking
- bawl
- be in sb's face idiom
- beat yourself up
- bring
- come down on sb like a ton of bricks idiom
- dressing-down
- keelhaul
- lambaste
- lay
- neck
- rebuke
- reprimand
- reproachful
- there'll be hell to pay idiom
- throw
- throw the book at sb idiom
- tirade
- upbraid
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