"tongue lashing" meaning in English

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      "form": "tongue lashings",
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        "plural"
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      "expansion": "tongue lashing (plural tongue lashings)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The coach was so upset with his team after they lost that he gave them an hour-long tongue-lashing."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A verbal rebuke, often severe."
      ],
      "id": "en-tongue_lashing-en-noun-ZOSFhRw3",
      "links": [
        [
          "rebuke",
          "rebuke"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "castigation"
        },
        {
          "word": "scolding"
        },
        {
          "word": "tongue-lashing"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "verbal rebuke",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "berisping"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "verbal rebuke",
          "word": "léasadh teanga"
        },
        {
          "code": "yi",
          "english": "ironically",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "mishebeyrekh",
          "sense": "verbal rebuke",
          "word": "מי־שברך"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tongue lashing"
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    {
      "form": "tongue lashings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The coach was so upset with his team after they lost that he gave them an hour-long tongue-lashing."
        }
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        "A verbal rebuke, often severe."
      ],
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          "rebuke",
          "rebuke"
        ]
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "castigation"
    },
    {
      "word": "scolding"
    },
    {
      "word": "tongue-lashing"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "verbal rebuke",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "berisping"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "verbal rebuke",
      "word": "léasadh teanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "english": "ironically",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "mishebeyrekh",
      "sense": "verbal rebuke",
      "word": "מי־שברך"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tongue lashing"
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