dressing-down | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Areprimandor rarely, athrashing.1865,Horatio Alger, Jr.,Paul Prescott's Charge:"I'll give him adressing down, see if I don't." Mrs. Mudge's eyes snapped viciously, and she clutched the relics of the broom with a degree of energy which rendered it uncertain what sort of adressing downshe intended for her husband.1894,Howard Pyle,Twilight Land:When the blacksmith saw what Babo had done to his mother, he caught him by the collar, and fell to giving him such adressing downas never man had before.1912,Arthur Conan Doyle,The Lost World[…], London; New York, N.Y.:Hodder and Stoughton,→OCLC:"We must all bow to you, and try to get a favorable word, must we? This man shall have a leg up, and this man shall have adressing down!"2013October 13,Ellen Barry, “The Russia Left Behind: A journey through a heartland on the slow road to ruin”, inThe New York Times‎[1]:Just ask Gen. Yevgeny I. Ignatov, a former mayor of Torzhok, who stepped down two years ago after adressing-downfrom the regional governor.

Examples:

EN: Give him a good dressing-down. Tell him what's what.
ES: Déjale las cosas claras.
EN: - We'll help you to give her a dressing-down!
ES: -¡Tráela y mátala! Diablos, chico, le azotaremos ese impúdico trasero.
EN: - He gave me a dressing-down.
ES: Me ha echado un sermón.
EN: Wants to give me a dressing-down.
ES: , querìa darme un rapapolvo.
EN: But then he will give you a dress... a dressing-down.
ES: pero entonces te darà un rapa... un rapapolvo.
EN: And Mr Topaze badly needs a dressing-down.
ES: Y el Sr. Topaze necesita una buena bronca.
EN: I'd be in for a real dressing-down.
ES: Un trabajador que lleva espada sólo puede traerme problemas.
EN: Is this a dressing-down, Don Alfonso?
ES: ¿Es una advertencia, don Alfonso?
EN: A mission that could put you in a situation that would be far more unnerving than a dressing-down by me.
ES: Una misión que podría ponerla en una situación mucho más desconcertante que un reto mío.
EN: Remember you're little press conference? And you gave that reporter a dressing-down for intimating that all Muslims are terrorists.
ES: En la conferencia de prensa, acusó al periodista de pensar ... que todos los musulmanes son terroristas ...
EN: Well, maybe they don't execute, but they give you a good dressing-down.
ES: Bueno, quizá no los ejecutan, pero les dan una buena reprimenda.
EN: If they learned up there that you gave me this gear, you'd get a proper dressing-down!
ES: Si supieran que me proporcionas este equipo tendrías una buena reprimenda
EN: Oh, the inspector was just giving us a bit of a dressing-down.
ES: El inspector nos estaba dando una pequeña reprimenda.
EN: He needed a little dressing-down.
ES: Necesitaba un leve ajuste de comportamiento.
EN: Because he was afraid you'd give him a dressing-down for acting improperly.
ES: Porque temía que le echaras - una reprimenda por actuar indebidamente.

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