"hairdryer treatment" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From hairdryer + treatment (the image being of shouting at someone so close to their face that your hot breath could dry their hair).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hairdryer treatments",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hairdryer treatment (plural hairdryer treatments)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Gaynor Morgan, The Real David Beckham: An Intimate Biography, John Blake, page 52",
          "text": "Of course, sometimes the hairdryer treatment can be taken with a pinch of salt.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Dave Simpson, The Last Champions, Random House, page 57",
          "text": "He insists Wilkinson's hairdryer treatment did the trick. He...points out, 'When I got back in, I stayed in.'.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2013, John Prescott, Ed Miliband is Labour's Alex Ferguson and he needs to give any slacking ministers the hairdryer treatment, in Mirror online, 20 Aug 2013,\nIf Shadow Cabinet members aren’t pulling their weight, give them the hairdryer treatment and kick ’em out."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a confrontation where someone stands very close to a subordinate and lambasts them very loudly."
      ],
      "id": "en-hairdryer_treatment-en-noun-pIByIG8I",
      "links": [
        [
          "confrontation",
          "confrontation"
        ],
        [
          "subordinate",
          "subordinate"
        ],
        [
          "lambast",
          "lambast"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hairdryer treatment"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From hairdryer + treatment (the image being of shouting at someone so close to their face that your hot breath could dry their hair).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hairdryer treatments",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hairdryer treatment (plural hairdryer treatments)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Gaynor Morgan, The Real David Beckham: An Intimate Biography, John Blake, page 52",
          "text": "Of course, sometimes the hairdryer treatment can be taken with a pinch of salt.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Dave Simpson, The Last Champions, Random House, page 57",
          "text": "He insists Wilkinson's hairdryer treatment did the trick. He...points out, 'When I got back in, I stayed in.'.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2013, John Prescott, Ed Miliband is Labour's Alex Ferguson and he needs to give any slacking ministers the hairdryer treatment, in Mirror online, 20 Aug 2013,\nIf Shadow Cabinet members aren’t pulling their weight, give them the hairdryer treatment and kick ’em out."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a confrontation where someone stands very close to a subordinate and lambasts them very loudly."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "confrontation",
          "confrontation"
        ],
        [
          "subordinate",
          "subordinate"
        ],
        [
          "lambast",
          "lambast"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hairdryer treatment"
}