give a roasting
- Fuente de la expresión
- WordReference
- Estructura completa
- To give somebody a roasting
- Variantes
- To speak clearly, to tell somebody what we really think, directly, even if it can annoy him or her.
- Contexto
- Maugham goes on to give a roasting to Patrick and his companions in a play whose first two acts zing with a ferocity that sometimes borders on the surreal as one by one normal conventions are over-turned.
- Fuente del contexto
- londongrip.co.uk
- Tipo de fuente
- Página web
- Autor
- Carole Woddis
- Título de la fuente
- The Breadwinner – Orange Tree Theatre, London – review by Carole Woddis.
- Año
- 2013
- Web
- https://goo.gl/Xxda29
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
- Marca dialectal
- General
- Frecuencia
- Frecuente