get (a lot of) grief (from someone)
get (a lot of) grief (from someone)
To receive strong criticism, disapproval, or judgment (for something). I got a lot of grief from my parents over my decision to pursue a degree in art rather than law or medicine. I'm going to get grief from my boss for that accounting error I made last week. John stills gets a lot of grief for that time his pants fell down in the middle of class.
See also: get, grief, lot
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- get (a lot of) stick (from someone)
- get a lot of stick
- get/take stick from somebody
- take (a lot of) stick (from someone)
- raise objection
- vote with (one's) feet
- vote with feet
- vote with one’s feet
- vote with one's feet
- vote with your feet