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Definition of the day : « dressing-down »
- noun severe scolding
- "Deeper'n the Whale-deep," said Dan, with a wink, as he set the gear for dressing-down.
- Extract from : « "Captains Courageous" » by Rudyard Kipling
- That fellow I gave a dressing-down about India to up at the Pratts' there.
- Extract from : « A Crooked Mile » by Oliver Onions
- She must doff all gloves and give the little Doctor the dressing-down of his life.
- Extract from : « Queed » by Henry Sydnor Harrison
- And because he's given the priest a dressing-down, and broken an image worth a nickel, must he be shut up in a mad-house?
- Extract from : « The Quest » by Frederik van Eeden
- Coming out again, the grim and forbidding doctor ordered Jimmie into his car, and oh, what a dressing-down he did give him!
- Extract from : « Jimmie Higgins » by Upton Sinclair
- Furthermore, she had given Mike the Angel a dressing-down that had been quite impressive.
- Extract from : « Unwise Child » by Gordon Randall Garrett
- Perhaps you gave her such a dressing-down, Billie, that shes turned over a new leaf.
- Extract from : « The Motor Maids' School Days » by Katherine Stokes
- Ibbetson's wife gave him a dressing-down at tea-time for dragging Ibbetson into the row.
- Extract from : « Brother Copas » by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
- Perhaps it was Roy's dressing-down of that youth that prompted Tom to be more decent to him than usual.
- Extract from : « Left Guard Gilbert » by Ralph Henry Barbour