ˌdressing-ˈdown noun [singular]TELL somebody OFFan occasion when you talk angrily to someone because they have done something wrong 責罵,訓斥give somebody/get a dressing-downThe tobacco companies got a severe dressing-down. 各煙草公司受到了嚴厲的責罵。
give somebody/get a dressing-down• Pippin was given a public dressing-down, and ordered to precede his father to Francia.