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dressing down

NOUN
  1. a severe scolding

How To Use dressing down In A Sentence

  • Anyone caught not wearing a seatbelt in a car or a taxi can expect a dressing down from the chairman himself. Times, Sunday Times
  • The managers were apparently given a dressing down and the comptroller was told that internal audit findings were taken into account in fixing managers' bonuses.
  • The pair face a dressing down from bosses after production staff spotted them emerging from the tiny room. The Sun
  • The controversial centreback has already received at least one dressing down from his manager for overdoing the theatrics this season. The Sun
  • If one of those publishers screws up, I give them dressing down they deserve.
  • His work was bad, so the boss gave him a dressing down.
  • His behaviour is said to have included regularly dressing down officers in front of other staff and ordering them to do menial tasks when they were tired.
  • Dressing down Now Mum can cover up in style with this beautiful printed robe. The Sun
  • He sounded like the school headmaster quietly but firmly dressing down a truant pupil.
  • After all, dressing down successfully takes as much skill as dressing up. Times, Sunday Times
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