get taken to task (by someone)
get taken to task (by someone)
To be scolded, rebuked, reprimanded, or criticized (by someone). I got taken to task by the headmaster for disrupting class again. It's not entirely fair that the bankers are the only ones getting taken to task for the economic collapse, when a great many politicians are to blame as well.
See also: get, taken, task
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- be taken to task (by someone)
- take a telling-off
- give somebody/get what for
- get (the) what for
- break into a smile
- give somebody/get a roasting
- get a roasting
- get hell about (something)
- deem that it is necessary
- get hell for (something)