tongue-lashing

A harsh vocal reprimand. The boss gave his sales team a real tongue-lashing after seeing a drop in profits for the fourth straight month.

*tongue-lashing

Fig. a severe scolding. (*Typically: get ~; have ~; give someone ~.) I really got a tongue-lashing when I got home. Ted will have a tongue-lashing at home.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Leif	LAYF	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Marzell	-	German
Isra	-	Arabic
Viktoria	vik-TO-ree-ah (German), veek-TO-ree-yah (Russian)	German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Estonian, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian
Reid	[ri:d]
Martti	MAHRT-tee	Finnish