ˌdressing-ˈdown noun [singular] TELL somebody OFFan occasion when you talk angrily to someone because they have done something wrong 责骂,训斥give somebody/get a dressing-down The tobacco companies got a severe dressing-down. 各烟草公司受到了严厉的责骂。
give somebody/get a dressing-down• Pippin was given a public dressing-down, and ordered to precede his father to Francia.