to give sb a proper ticking-off
- Fuente de la expresión
- The Free Dictionary and Cambridge Dictionary
- Estructura completa
- To give sb a proper ticking-off
- Variantes
- To make angry; to scold severely
- Contexto
- She said that my uncle had given her a proper ticking-off for never
seeing that I was no threat to her, and she was willing, if I were, to try and
sort things out between us. - Tipo de fuente
- webpage
- Autor
- Wordnik
- Título de la fuente
- Wordnik
- Web
- https://www.wordnik.com/words/ticking-off
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Estándar
- Marca dialectal
- General
- Frecuencia
- Frecuente