read a lecture

Idioms  

1. Also, read a lesson. Issue a reprimand, as in Dad read us a lecture after the teacher phoned and complained. The first term dates from the late 1500s, the variant from the early 1600s. Also see read the riot act; teach a lesson.

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read a lecture

At a meeting of the National Swine Industry Committee in Chicago, he read a lecture to the processors and distributors of meat products.

From Time Magazine Archive

He'll read a lecture on an aspect of the woman question he's never thought about.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

What a rogue this is, to read a lecture to me—and mine own lesson too, which he knows I have made perfect to nine hundred fourscore and nineteen!

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various

Mr. Garrabrant seized upon the occasion to read a lecture to the scouts, telling them to live up to their motto, "Be prepared," and always keep an eye out when in the woods.

From Camp Fires of the Wolf Patrol by Alan Douglas

Gentle Northumberland, If thy offences were upon record, Would it not shame thee in so fair a troop To read a lecture of them?

From King Richard II by William Shakespeare

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