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tongue-lashings

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  • noun Plural form of tongue-lashing.

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Examples

  • There's a changing of the guards in the designer lounge as the winners return and the losers head out to get their tongue-lashings, and April and Chris play devil's advocate.

    Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 9 Recap: Eyeshadow of a Doubt Una LaMarche 2010

  • There's a changing of the guards in the designer lounge as the winners return and the losers head out to get their tongue-lashings, and April and Chris play devil's advocate.

    Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 9 Recap: Eyeshadow of a Doubt Una LaMarche 2010

  • To understand how China views hectoring by U.S. politicians, imagine the following: Would tongue-lashings from Chinese politicians and threats to sell China's dollar holdings unless the U.S. got its fiscal house in order prompt Americans to make changes or to dig in and do the opposite?

    One Loser in U.S. Presidential Polling: China Bob Davis 2011

  • Wall Street executives typically react with irritation to Washington tongue-lashings.

    A Scolding for Wall Street Honchos 2010

  • He resisted giving himself the how-stupid-could-I-have-been tongue-lashings and tried to imagine this utterly self-involved woman going to great and horrible lengths to teach him a lesson about what sort of woman he needed as a partner.

    NEVER WAVE GOODBYE DOUG MAGEE 2010

  • She could suddenly imagine tongue-lashings and well-placed nibbling, moaning, groaning, begging.

    Ecstasy in Darkness Gena Showalter 2010

  • She could suddenly imagine tongue-lashings and well-placed nibbling, moaning, groaning, begging.

    Ecstasy in Darkness Gena Showalter 2010

  • The government's weak incentives so far -- and verbal tongue-lashings being promised today -- aren't likely to remedy this crisis.

    Art Levine: As Treasury Department Stumbles, Liberals Push Tougher Measures to Stem Foreclosures 2009

  • Or perhaps they were remembering the whips, chains, canes, stones, broken bones, gouged-out eyes, kicks, tongue-lashings, executions, or other punishments that Roman slaves are known to have suffered.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • Or perhaps they were remembering the whips, chains, canes, stones, broken bones, gouged-out eyes, kicks, tongue-lashings, executions, or other punishments that Roman slaves are known to have suffered.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

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