| 词汇 | earful |
| 释义 | earful noun informaluk /ˈɪə.fʊl/ us /ˈɪr.fʊl/ give someone an earful to complain angrily to someone训斥…，斥责…;向…抱怨 Chastising & rebuking admonishing admonishingly admonitory barracking bawl carpet 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 We were giving them an earful about it, and then they spring Lincoln on us. With that he gets back to his Reserve Army scheme and he sure does give me an earful. earful | American Dictionaryearful noun[ U ] us/ˈɪər·fʊl/ angry, complaining speech: I’d better not be late for practice or the coach will give me an earful. Examples of earfulearful This is quite a mouthful and an earful to take in so late at night. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When one of her daughters kept trying to cover her with a blanket, she delivered an earful. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time? From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It builds and teases before bursting into an earful of cymbals and wailing its way to a messy finale. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He's going to get an earful tonight. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Further down, you find yourself in the fish and poultry section and the cacophony inside can be quite an earful, with shop owners and customers bargaining for a good deal. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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