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Read-someone-the-riot-act
Read-someone-the-riot-act
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(idiomatic) To
scold
or
berate
somebody; to
reprimand
.
She really read him the riot act about his smoking habit.
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Origin of read-someone-the-riot-act
From
read the Riot Act
(“give a formal warning to a riotous assembly by reading a prescribed portion of the Riot Act, UK, 1715-1967”)
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