In the Loop
Degree I’d I Loop Get/Give Questioned Great Detail
| Id |
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| Idiom |
GET/GIVE (SOMEONE) THE THIRD DEGREE |
| Definition |
to be questioned in great detail |
| Examples |
- My parents didn’t believe that I’d spent the evening at the library. They gave me the third degree, questioning me about when I had arrived and left and what I’d done while I was there.
- When it was revealed that the candidate had been arrested some years before, he got the third degree from the newspaper reporters. He had to answer question after question.
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