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Verb

To severely reprimand or criticize someone

give someone hell

reprimand severely

remonstrate with

give someone a telling-off

haul over the coals

give someone a dressing-down

give someone an earful

give someone a roasting

give someone a rollicking

rap over the knuckles

read the riot act

come down hard on

give someone a caning

let someone have it

give someone a mouthful

give someone a wigging

give someone some stick

give someone what for

give someone a bollocking

give someone a rating

tear off a strip

send someone away with a flea in their ear

give someone a row

rake over the coals

slap on the wrist

slap someone's wrist

jump down one's throat

find fault with

lay down the law

take to the woodshed

call on the carpet

give a piece of one's mind

call to account

bite someone's head off

tear a strip off

have words with

rake over coals

send someone away with a flea in his

give the dickens

give tongue-lashing

rap someone the knuckles

drag over the coals

criticize severely

give going-over

give piece of mind

give someone a carpeting

criticize hatefully

give a hard time

take down a peg

burn one's ears

snap someone's head off

mete out punishment to

criticize strongly

make an example of

lose one's temper with

have someone on the carpet

give the business

jump down someone's throat

give comeuppance

point the finger

express disapproval of

rap across the knuckles

give a going over

tell a thing or two

come down on like a ton of bricks

rap on knuckles

severely reprimand

throw the book at

strongly criticize

give someone stick

give an injunction to

give someone a ticking-off

inveigh against

blacken someone's reputation

vituperate against

give a black eye

fulminate against

drag through the mud

drag through the mire

bring into disrepute

bring discredit to

reflect badly on

bring shame upon

give a bad name

rip up and down

do a hatchet job on

tar and feather

spread scandal about

run smear campaign

lay at one's door

hold accountable

hold responsible

cast aspersions on

give some stick to

give someone a bad press

point finger at

assign guilt to

give something a bad press

remonstrate against

express a poor opinion of

cut to the quick

put someone in their place

take down a peg or two

impute blame to

bellyache about

hold accountable for

hold responsible for

attribute blame to

sound off about

assault verbally

criticize harshly

tear someone a new one

give someone a dressing down

give someone a telling off

hold someone to blame

declaim against

pass strictures upon

drag through mud

drag someone's name through the mud

jump on one's case

go for the jugular

give a tongue-lashing

express disapprobation

express disapprobation of

bring charges against

call over the coals

bring to account

throw brickbats at

take issue with

give a bad press to

make uncomfortable

make someone eat crow

make someone feel ashamed

cut down to size

make a protest to

assign fault to

lay the blame on

place the blame on

shift the blame

lay a guilt trip on

consider guilty of

lay a bad trip on

assign liability to

kick in the teeth

slap in the face

hit where one lives

hang something on

blow whistle on

send up the river

put in a bad light

ruin the reputation of

lay at the door of

damage someone's reputation

lay the blame on someone for

attribute liability to

lodge complaint

hold answerable for

destroy someone's credibility

bring into disfavour

show in a bad light

blacken someone's name

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