give someone an earful

give someone an earful
give (someone) an earful informal to tell someone how angry you are with them.

You can just imagine the earful he gave her when they got home.


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  • give somebody an earful — verb To shout very loudly at someone I shouldve never tried to grind the business computer system to halt. Firstly I got sacked, and then my boss gave me a right earful …   Wiktionary

  • give an earful — give (someone) an earful informal to tell someone how angry you are with them. You can just imagine the earful he gave her when they got home …   New idioms dictionary

  • earful — ear|ful [ˈıəful US ˈır ] n give sb an earful informal to tell someone how angry you are about something they have done ▪ He gave me a real earful about being late so often …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • earful — noun give sb an earful informal to tell someone how angry you are about something they have done: He gave me a real earful about being late so often …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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  • reprimand — 1. verb was it really necessary to reprimand him in public? Syn: rebuke, admonish, chastise, chide, upbraid, reprove, reproach, scold, berate, take to task, lambaste, give someone a piece of one s mind, rake/haul over the coals, lecture,… …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • castigate — verb Leopold castigated his son for leaving the archbishop s service Syn: reprimand, rebuke, admonish, chastise, chide, censure, upbraid, reprove, reproach, scold, berate, take to task, lambaste, give someone a piece of one s mind; informal… …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • chastise — verb the staff were chastised for arriving late Syn: scold, upbraid, berate, reprimand, reprove, rebuke, admonish, chide, censure, lambaste, castigate, lecture, give someone a piece of one s mind, give someone a tongue lashing, take to task,… …   Thesaurus of popular words

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