dressing-down

a harsh scolding. The boss gave the entire sales crew a powerful dressing-down for missing their forecast.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Genie	JEE-nee	English
Rio (1)	-	Various
Ruf	-	Russian
Ctibor	-	Czech
Fatimah	fah-TIM-ah (Arabic)	Arabic, Malay, Indonesian
Daphne	['dæfni]