0 If you give someone a tongue-lashing, you speak angrily to that person about something that they have done wrong:
There had been a terrible scene, and a tongue-lashing delivered in the language of early border days.
Her natural impulse had been to turn upon them and give them the tongue-lashing they deserved.
She was giving the chauffeur a tongue-lashing and calling his attention to her soiled clothing.
He departed, driving his new victim before him and tongue-lashing him all the way.
He would be fortunate indeed to escape with no more than a tongue-lashing; he might well end up being demoted in rank.
All "tongue-lashing" is to be taken quietly, without retort.
He hasn't had such a tongue-lashing since he was born.
I reckon the boy has decided he's had enough tongue-lashing for one day, and don't intend to sleep here to-night.
