"dressing-down" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1865, Horatio Alger, Jr., Paul Prescott's Charge",
          "text": "\"I'll give him a dressing down, see if I don't.\" Mrs. Mudge's eyes snapped viciously, and she clutched the relics of the broom with a degree of energy which rendered it uncertain what sort of a dressing down she intended for her husband.",
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          "ref": "1894, Howard Pyle, Twilight Land",
          "text": "When the blacksmith saw what Babo had done to his mother, he caught him by the collar, and fell to giving him such a dressing down as never man had before.",
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          "ref": "2013 October 13, Ellen Barry, “The Russia Left Behind: A journey through a heartland on the slow road to ruin”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "Just ask Gen. Yevgeny I. Ignatov, a former mayor of Torzhok, who stepped down two years ago after a dressing-down from the regional governor.",
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        "A reprimand or rarely, a thrashing."
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        "(idiomatic) A reprimand or rarely, a thrashing."
      ],
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          "ref": "1865, Horatio Alger, Jr., Paul Prescott's Charge",
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          "ref": "2013 October 13, Ellen Barry, “The Russia Left Behind: A journey through a heartland on the slow road to ruin”, in The New York Times",
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        "(idiomatic) A reprimand or rarely, a thrashing."
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