to tear a strip off
- Fuente de la expresión
- Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary & Thesaurus ©Cambridge University Press
- Estructura completa
- to tear a strip off somebody
- Contexto
- In his recent autobiography, Steven Gerrard tells of two England players refusing to walk 50 yards for a massage during that miserable 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The most interesting revelation was that captain Gerrard didn’t tear a strip off the miscreants at the time. Instead, he did the decent thing — stored up the anecdote and used it to sell book serialisation rights. Wouldn’t want to rock the boat now would we?
- Tipo de fuente
- newspaper
- Autor
- Dave Kidd
- Título de la fuente
- England and World Cups just do not go together — whether it is rugby, football or cricket
- Año
- 2015
- Web
- http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/england-world-cups-just-dont-6533596
- Observaciones
- Also: tear somebody off a strip
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
- Marca dialectal
- Dialectal UK
- Frecuencia
- Frecuente