How To Use Dressing down In A Sentence
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Anyone caught not wearing a seatbelt in a car or a taxi can expect a dressing down from the chairman himself.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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The pair face a dressing down from bosses after production staff spotted them emerging from the tiny room.
The Sun
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The controversial centreback has already received at least one dressing down from his manager for overdoing the theatrics this season.
The Sun
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If one of those publishers screws up, I give them dressing down they deserve.
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His work was bad, so the boss gave him a dressing down.
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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.
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Dressing down Now Mum can cover up in style with this beautiful printed robe.
The Sun
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He sounded like the school headmaster quietly but firmly dressing down a truant pupil.
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After all, dressing down successfully takes as much skill as dressing up.
Times, Sunday Times
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We expected wholesale changes in the team and a dressing down.
Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
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BEIJING — Summoned for a diplomatic dressing down last year, Jon Huntsman Jr., the American ambassador to Beijing, hopped on his sturdy "Forever" brand Chinese bicycle and pedaled off to the Foreign Ministry.
When Diplomacy Means Abandoning the Rule Book
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However, nowhere else has dressing down caused so much angst and confusion as in the routine workday.
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Anyone caught not wearing a seatbelt in a car or a taxi can expect a dressing down from the chairman himself.
Times, Sunday Times
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We expected wholesale changes in the team and a dressing down.
Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
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Her longtime hairstylist Kim Kimble tells People, "Even when she's dressing down, she will accessorize with items that make the outfi t pop or wear her hair in a glamorous style.
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From the mozzarella sticks and boneless buffalo wings appetizers served with yummy ranch dressing down to the riblet basket, the steak and the fries, we thoroughly stuffed ourselves to the brim!
Giddy Tigers
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The priest was summoned to give Paddy a dressing down about some mischief he had been getting into and to extol the virtues and benefits of living a good life.
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That earned him a deserved dressing down from the trial judge.
Times, Sunday Times
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To be on-message dressing down is the norm while dressing up is for the hopelessly sad who are not relaxed enough to get in sync with New Labour's New Britain.
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The other day, he was virtually given a ‘dressing down’ by an irate woman delegate who demanded to know whether he was a male chauvinist.
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A pair of Mississippi misogynists were given a dressing down when a judge meted out a fitting punishment for their crimes.
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With companies busy downsizing - oops, rightsizing is the politically correct word - dressing down has become the order of the day.
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With companies busy downsizing - oops, rightsizing is the politically correct word - dressing down has become the order of the day.
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GOOD on teachers for dressing down parents who turn up in school wearing pyjamas.
The Sun
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Anyone caught not wearing a seatbelt in a car or a taxi can expect a dressing down from the chairman himself.
Times, Sunday Times
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That earned him a deserved dressing down from the trial judge.
Times, Sunday Times
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He claimed that actors were given a ‘dressing down’ when they got things wrong or when they were caught boozing.
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