lecture for

lecture (one) for (something)

To give one a stern, chastising talk to one for some mistake or failing. He started lecturing me again for not doing my share of chores around the house. Instead of just lecturing your staff for not meeting their sales targets, try incentivizing them in various ways.
See also: lecture
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

lecture someone for something

to give someone a talking-to about something. Please don't lecture me for being late. It won't help now, will it? There is no point in lecturing us for something we didn't do.
See also: lecture
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • drive (one) out of office
  • force (one) out of office
  • force out of office
  • give (one) (one's) head
  • give head
  • give somebody their head
  • give someone their head
  • cooking for one
  • 1FTR
  • as one door closes, another (one) opens
References in classic literature
He will no more than pay the price of listening to a lecture for any atrocity he commits."
Jerry of the Islands
live lecture for education in clinical periodontology.
FACTORS INFLUENCING DENTAL STUDENTS ATTENDANCE IN LECTURES IN PRIVATE DENTAL COLLEGES OF KARACHI
The same lecture for first year undergraduates on the same day was attended by eight students.
Lecturer livid as not one of 400 students show up
70% of the students felt that at least 25% attendance should be there for the lecture for it to go ahead as per the schedule.
Majority of students thought that at least 25% attendance should be there in the lecture for it to go ahead.
Perception of students and teachers of a good lecture: A questionnaire-based cross-sectional study in a tertiary care teaching hospital
Later the places of Group I and GROUP II were reversed and Group II students were given another topic based on the teachers' lecture for group discussion and Group I students were made fish watchers.
Fish bowl teaching technique for IIND year MBBS students in AIMSR
"We have been incredibly proud to have hosted the Lecture for the past five years and, having spoken to David recently, know that he is very much looking forward to the event" Previous speakers have included Tony Blair, Jo Brand and Bill Bryson.
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Furthermore, the action of attending a lecture to learn from a proclaimed expert entails passive listening and absorption of information; the listener is not expected to interrogate the lecture for the ways in which authority is constructed and conveyed.
"A key area of knowledge delivered by someone knowledgeable": feminist expectations and explorations of a one-off economics lecture on gender
The videotaped lecture for the testing session controlled for extraneous variables (e.g., pacing, intonation, pauses) that might have been present if the lecture had been presented "live" to multiple groups of students; similarly, the videotaped lecture for the training session allowed for a second presentation during the training (described in detail in the procedures section).
Strategic note-taking for middle-school students with learning disabilities in science classes
Zaslow, a Carnegie Mellon graduate, covered the Lecture for the Wall Street Journal, where he is a columnist.
Between the lines
Registration required in advance for each lecture For more information or reservations, visit ww.downtownny.com/thirdthursdays.
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But "writing down as much as possible" during a lecture may not result in effective encoding of the lecture for note takers.
The effects of academic skills on Chinese ESL students' lecture comprehension
The average lesson plan was neatly formatted, presented sound objectives for the week's lectures, and clearly outlined each history lecture for the week.
Teaching evaluations of persons with disabilities differ according to the nature of the disability