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

Each day she read a lecture on the practical duties of Christianity, and induced all to recite aloud the morning and night prayers.

From Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois by Anonymous

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 Shakespeare, William

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)