give somebody a ticking off
- Fuente de la expresión
- Cambridge Dictionary
- Estructura completa
- Somebody give somebody else a ticking off
- Contexto
- Soldier's wife gave him a 'ticking off' after he ran into enemy fire. A soldier from Shropshire who's received a bravery award for putting himself at risk running into enemy fire in Afghanistan, says his wife wasn't please when she found out he'd run directly into enemy fire.
- Fuente del contexto
- Newspaper
- Tipo de fuente
- newspaper
- Autor
- Unknown
- Título de la fuente
- ITV News
- Año
- 2012
- Web
- https://www.itv.com/news/central/update/2012-09-28/soldiers-wife-gave-him-a-ticking-off-after-he-ran-into-enemy-fire/
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
- Marca dialectal
- General
- Frecuencia
- Raro