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tell someone off phrasal verb with tellverbuk /tel/ us /tel/told | told B2 to speak angrily to someone because they have done something wrong: 责备,斥责(某人) The teacher told me off for swearing.我因骂脏话遭到了老师的训斥。 Mum told me off for slopping water all down her shirt. If you make your sister cry, you'll get told off. Their teacher told them off for chattering in the lesson. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Chastising & rebuking admonishing admonishingly admonitory barracking bawl carpet earbashing keelhaul lambaste lecture pull someone up punchbag punching bag put someone in their placeidiom rap someone over the knucklesidiom reproachful shame spoken tear wigging
tell off someone | American Dictionary
tell off someone phrasal verb with tellverbus/tel/past tense and past participletoldus/toʊld/ past tense and past participletold to criticize someone angrily: Rob told off his boss, then quit. |