"tear a strip off someone" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-tear a strip off someone.ogg [Australia] Forms: tears a strip off someone [present, singular, third-person], tearing a strip off someone [participle, present], tore a strip off someone [past], torn a strip off someone [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|tear<,,tore,torn> a strip off someone}} tear a strip off someone (third-person singular simple present tears a strip off someone, present participle tearing a strip off someone, simple past tore a strip off someone, past participle torn a strip off someone)
  1. (slang) To scold vigorously. Tags: slang Synonyms: tear someone off a strip, tear strips off someone Synonyms (scold vigorously): excoriate, give someone a dressing-down, haul someone over the coals, rake someone over the coals, read someone the riot act, tell someone off Translations (scold vigorously): engueuler (French), engueuler comme du poisson pourri (French), heftig beschimpfen (German), ordentlich die Meinung sagen (German), eine Standpauke halten (German), herunterputzen (German), úthúða (Icelandic)
    Sense id: en-tear_a_strip_off_someone-en-verb-wL13tWaY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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