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tongue-lashing

/tuhng-lash/US // ˈtʌŋˌlæʃ //

鞭挞,抨击,臭骂,舌战群儒

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : to scold severely.

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Examples

  • After the release of the trailer for the special last week, TLC received a requisite and perhaps well-deserved tongue-lashing.

  • Abramson, biting her tongue, was widely portrayed in rival outlets as classily above the fray.

  • The second is strangled tongue disease, the English inability to express real feelings in conversation.

  • Language was no barrier; just about every tongue on the planet was babbling away, caught up in the elaborate mystique of a cult.

  • Sata, who was known as King Cobra because of his sharp tongue, was thought to have been seriously ill for some time.

  • “Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.

  • Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.

  • The flute and the psaltery make a sweet melody, but a pleasant tongue is above them both.

  • Each sentence came as if torn piecemeal from his unwilling tongue; short, jerky phrases, conceived in pain and delivered in agony.

  • If she have a tongue that can cure, and likewise mitigate and shew mercy: her husband is not like other men.