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lecture; telling-off [Br.]; severe scolding; tongue-lashing; earful [coll.]; wigging [Br.] [dated] ![[listen]](/pics/s1.png "lecture {noun}"){kind=small} |
Standpauke {f}; Strafpredigt {f}; Gardinenpredigt {f} | |
| to give sb. a wigging / a right earful / a telling-off [Br.] / a bollocking [Br.] [coll.] | jdm. eine Standpauke halten; jdm. (gehörig) die Leviten lesen [ugs.] | |
| to get an earful | sich was anhören müssen [ugs.] |