rib-roasting

Detected twenty years ago, the delinquent would have been impaled; now he escapes with a rib-roasting.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

Adam's excuse for eating of the forbidden fruit, "She gave me of the tree and I did eat," is said to be thus ingeniously explained by the learned Rabbis: By giving him of the _tree_ is meant that Eve took a stout crab-tree cudgel, and gave her husband (in plain English) a sound rib-roasting, until he complied with her will!

Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers William Alexander Clouston 1869

George took his screw by the head, and, giving him a hearty rib-roasting with his whip, ran him full tilt at the palings, and carried away half a rood.

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

Van Curlet and his garrison, but now these moss troopers increased in their atrocities, kidnaping hogs, impounding horses, and sometimes grievously rib-roasting their owners.

Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete Washington Irving 1821

Every day or two he was sure to get a sound rib-roasting for some of his misdemeanors; which, however, as it broke no bones, he made very light of, and scrupled not to repeat the offence whenever another opportunity presented.

Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete Washington Irving 1821

This rich story ends, to the compassion of the men in their senses, in a sound rib-roasting of the idealist by the muleteer, the mob.

Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

Ronnie Davis, my co-worker and rib-roasting consultant, chided me last night - You have a kitchen full of cooks who can do all this for you.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2010

Ronnie Davis, my co-worker and rib-roasting consultant, chided me last night - You have a kitchen full of cooks who can do all this for you.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Liz Neumark 2010

The consequence is numberless disputes and conflicts between them and the bee hunters: and often a party of the latter, returning, laden with rich spoil, from one of their forays, are apt to be waylaid by the native lords of the soil; their honey to be seized, their harness cut to pieces, and themselves left to find their way home the best way they can, happy to escape with no greater personal harm than a sound rib-roasting.

The Adventures of Captain Bonneville Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 1850

The consequence is numberless disputes and conflicts between them and the bee hunters: and often a party of the latter, returning, laden with rich spoil, from one of their forays, are apt to be waylaid by the native lords of the soil; their honey to be seized, their harness cut to pieces, and themselves left to find their way home the best way they can, happy to escape with no greater personal harm than a sound rib-roasting.

The adventures of Captain Bonneville 1837