tongue-lashing

Related to tongue-lashing: tongueless, sharp tongue

tongue-lashing

A harsh vocal reprimand. The boss gave his sales team a real tongue-lashing after seeing a drop in profits for the fourth straight month.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

*tongue-lashing

Fig. a severe scolding. (*Typically: get ~; have ~; give someone ~.) I really got a tongue-lashing when I got home. Ted will have a tongue-lashing at home.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • give (one) a tongue-lashing
  • give someone a tongue-lashing
  • lashing
  • the rough side of (one's) tongue
  • the rough edge of (one's) tongue
  • the rough edge of your tongue
  • call (one) on the carpet
  • call on the carpet
  • be under a microscope
  • be under the microscope
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One of the sisters - May Kelly - gave the thieves a tongue-lashing on radio and asked how they would feel if this had happened to their own mothers.
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London, Apr 5 (ANI): Brit chef Gordon Ramsay has revealed that even his kids are not spared from his legendary tongue-lashing.
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Ferguson has long been one of the loudest critics of referees in the domestic game and on Wednesday Italian Stefano Braschi found himself on the receiving end of a tongue-lashing from the fiery Scot.
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