tear a strip off someone
Verb
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Verb
- (slang) To scold vigorously.
- Miguel ended up phoning Liz at home and tearing a strip off her for telling Debra to tell him off.
- 2013, Lorraine Bateman, Paul Cole, Blue Days and Fair, page 211 ↗,
- No doubt Mother tore a strip off him last night. She will never forgive him for turning away a suitor.
- (scold vigorously) excoriate, give someone a dressing-down, haul someone over the coals, rake someone over the coals, read someone the riot act, tell off
- German: heftig beschimpfen, ordentlich die Meinung sagen, eine Standpauke halten, herunterputzen
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