| 词汇 | dressing-down |
| 释义 | dressing-down noun[ S ] old-fashioneduk /ˌdres.ɪŋˈdaʊn/ us /ˌdres.ɪŋˈdaʊn/ an act of speaking angrily to someone because they have done something wrong: 斥责，训斥 give someone a dressing-downShe gave me a dressing-down for being late.她斥责我去晚了。 get a dressing-downShe got a serious dressing-down from her boss for daring to ask the question. The dressing-down could be heard on the other side of the building. Some said the criticism from the audience was the worst dressing-down of an elected official they had ever witnessed. Chastising & rebuking admonishing admonishingly admonitory barracking bawl coal earbashing keelhaul lambaste lecture pull someone up punchbag punching bag put someone in their placeidiom rap someone over the knucklesidiom shame spoken tear ticking-off wigging You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Talking angrily Examples of dressing-downdressing-down Offer resigned five days later after a public dressing-down. From CNN Rob suspected this was perhaps the first real dressing-down he had had in his life, something that probably his own father had never done. From Project Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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