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Chewed In The Loop 116 Chew Scold Harshly Peggy Home Hours

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Idiom CHEW (SOMEONE) OUT [GET CHEWED OUT]
Definition to scold someone harshly
Examples
  1. When Peggy came home three hours late, her parents were very angry. They chewed her out and told her she was restricted for two weeks.
  2. The newspaper boy got chewed out by Mrs. James when he ran through her flower garden.
Cross-Refs

Compare to: read (someone) the riot act; rake (someone) over the coals; call (someone) on the carpet; give (someone) a piece of (one’s) mind

Category Emotions/Feelings: anger/being upset

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