tongue-lash
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of tongue-lash
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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Sometimes their officers had to tongue-lash them into action.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even Mutt & Jeff, Min & Andy Gump, Smitty, Jiggs & Maggie hurl pots and tongue-lash each other in Japanese.
From Time Magazine Archive
After Huie denounced Wallace on a lecture tour in 1964, the Governor went on television to tongue-lash the writer.
From Time Magazine Archive
The closing of Congress gave Senator Pat Harrison some fine opportunities to tongue-lash Republicans, and he was not slow to seize his opportunities.
From Time Magazine Archive
It isn't best to tongue-lash the boys that are for you," advised Presson, fretfully, "not this year, when reformers have got 'em filled up with a lot of skittish notions.
From The Ramrodders A Novel by Holman Day
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