tongue-lashing

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Sure, leaving your girlfriend sitting at a train station for three hours because you didn't see her text message is a crappy thing to do and deserving of a tongue-lashing, but she overacts for other things.

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  • And it was there when journalist Dan Lyons anonymously satirized Apple in his "Fake Steve Jobs" blog, as though the CEO were a corrupt monarch worthy of a Jonathan Swift-like tongue-lashing. —  ZDNet News - News Page One
  • "They want to give President Obama a strong tongue-lashing and lick government spending." —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • The only thing that will make this subplot worthwhile is the fierce tongue-lashing her mom (the reliably superb Connie Britton) is going to give this guy to stay away from her daughter. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Ngcobo was still giving the Roman Catholic Church in Cape Town a tongue-lashing this week, claiming it was racist, colonial, patronising and brimming with prejudice. —  Clerical Whispers
  • As the Mirror revealed on Wednesday, henpecked Gary, 38, placed his ad in Trade It after yet another tongue-lashing from his wife, Donna. —  mirror.co.uk - Home
 

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