See dress down on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "From analogy with dress up.",
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"form": "dresses down",
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},
{
"form": "dressing down",
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"ref": "2022 October 10, Jonathan Mahon-Heap, quoting Hugo, 29, former analyst, “‘One guy brandished a whip’ – bankers on Industry’s rampant sex, drugs and bullying culture”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "One night – it was 2.30am – he dressed down a graduate, screaming in her face: “Are you stupid? Are you a fucking stupid cunt?” I had never seen anything like it in a workplace, or on TV, and I haven’t since.",
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"ref": "2023 May 16, Cecilia Kang, “OpenAI’s Sam Altman Urges A.I. Regulation in Senate Hearing”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
"text": "Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and other tech luminaries have all been dressed down on Capitol Hill by lawmakers upset with their companies.",
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"To scold."
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"(transitive, idiomatic) To scold."
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"sense": "to scold",
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"To wear casual or informal clothes."
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"(intransitive) To wear casual or informal clothes."
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"(nautical) To prepare (caught fish) by gutting them, removing the heads and backbones, etc."
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"etymology_text": "From analogy with dress up.",
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"To scold."
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"sense": "to scold",
"word": "dare una strigliata a qualcuno"
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"sense": "to scold",
"word": "strigliare un cavallo"
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{
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"sense": "to scold",
"word": "ge en avhyvling"
}
],
"word": "dress down"
}
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