- tear a strip off
- Reprimand.
A concise dictionary of English slang (2nd edition) . Brian Phythian. 2015.
tear a strip off
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tear a strip off — If you tear a strip off someone, you reprimand them severely for doing something wrong. The teacher tore a strip off Charlie for not doing his homework … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
tear a strip off — phrasal Britain : to bawl out : scold * * * tear a strip off ( ● tear … Useful english dictionary
tear someone off a strip (or tear a strip off someone) Brit. — tear someone off a strip (or tear a strip off someone) Brit. informal rebuke someone angrily. → tear … English new terms dictionary
tear a strip off someone — ► tear someone off a strip (or tear a strip off someone) Brit. informal rebuke someone angrily. Main Entry: ↑tear … English terms dictionary
tear a strip off someone — tear someone off a strip/tear a strip off someone/british informal phrase to criticize someone angrily for doing something wrong Thesaurus: to criticize stronglysynonym to say something, or to speak to someone in an angry waysynonym Main entry … Useful english dictionary
tear a strip off somebody — tear sb ˈoff a strip | tear a ˈstrip off sb idiom (BrE, informal) to speak angrily to sb who has done sth wrong Main entry: ↑tearidiom … Useful english dictionary
tear a strip off — scold, lecture, criticize, give you hell [B] Kasan s father tore a strip off him for missing a day of school … English idioms
tear a strip off somebody — verb To scold vigorously. The boss tore a strip off him for arriving late to the meeting. Syn: excoriate, give somebody a dressing down, haul somebody over the coals, give somebody a telling off, read somebody the riot act, tell somebody off … Wiktionary
strip off — See tear a strip … A concise dictionary of English slang
tear someone off a strip — tear someone off a strip/tear a strip off someone/british informal phrase to criticize someone angrily for doing something wrong Thesaurus: to criticize stronglysynonym to say something, or to speak to someone in an angry waysynonym Main entry … Useful english dictionary
