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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Example Sentences

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

He had such subtle ways of encouragement—as when he told me that he had read a lecture of mine to his dying daughter, and described how it had comforted her.

From T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)

The lectures are not generally announced before-hand, but one day the newspapers got hold of the subject, and informed all the world that Professor Diterici would read a lecture upon Pera and the desert festivals.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various

I was to have read a lecture here last night, but the train walked all the way through the ice, sixty miles, from six in the morning, and arrived here at ten at night.

From Authors and Friends by Fields, Annie