Meaning of "tear someone off a strip" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF TEAR SOMEONE OFF A STRIP

tear someone off a strip

SYNONYMS OF «TEAR SOMEONE OFF A STRIP»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «tear someone off a strip» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of tear someone off a strip

bawl out · berate · carpet · censure · chew out · chide · lecture · rebuke · reprimand · reproach · reprove · scold · take to task · tear into · tell off · tick off · upbraid

TRANSLATION OF TEAR SOMEONE OFF A STRIP

Find out the translation of tear someone off a strip to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of tear someone off a strip from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tear someone off a strip» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 有人撕断条
• Translator English - Spanish: rasgar alguien una tira
• English: tear someone off a strip
• Translator English - Hindi: एक पट्टी बंद किसी आंसू
• Translator English - Arabic: المسيل للدموع شخص قبالة الشريط
• Translator English - Russian: разорвать кого-то полосы
• Translator English - Portuguese: rasgar alguém fora de uma faixa
• Translator English - Bengali: কেউ একটি ফালা বন্ধ টিয়ার
• Translator English - French: arracher quelqu´un d´un bande
• Translator English - Malay: Mengoyakkan seseorang dari jalur
• Translator English - German: reißen jemand aus einem Streifen
• Translator English - Japanese: ストリップから誰かを引き裂く
• Translator English - Korean: 스트립 누구를 떨어져 눈물
• Translator English - Javanese: Luh wong mati ing Strip
• Translator English - Vietnamese: xé người ra một dải
• Translator English - Tamil: ஒரு துண்டு இருந்து யாரோ கிழித்து
• Translator English - Marathi: कोणीतरी पट्टी बंद करा
• Translator English - Turkish: Birini şeritten ayır
• Translator English - Italian: strappare qualcuno fuori una striscia
• Translator English - Polish: rozerwać kogoś poza pasem
• Translator English - Ukrainian: розірвати когось смуги
• Translator English - Romanian: rupe cineva de pe o bandă
• Translator English - Greek: δάκρυ κάποιος από μία ταινία
• Translator English - Afrikaans: skeur iemand uit ´n strook
• Translator English - Swedish: riva någon av en remsa
• Translator English - Norwegian: rive noen ut en stripe

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TEAR SOMEONE OFF A STRIP»

Discover the use of tear someone off a strip in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tear someone off a strip and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The Chambers Dictionary

... tear a strip off (someone) or tear (someone) off a strip (colloq) to reprimand ( someone); tearaway to remove by tearing; to remove (oneself) reluctantly; tear down to demolish violently; tear Into to attack physically or verbally; to scold furiously; ...

Allied Chambers, 1998

Cassell英语常用词组用法词典

(Their country was torn limb from limb. {MMMEPgjirS-raft to tear oneself away ; ^•• •^rW (The scenery was so beautiful that we could not tear ourselves away. ffl to tear one's hair 1. i ^ffi'&Sg 2.gfBi ; +#£J* ; to tear someone off a strip (nL&HJIA ...

Rosalind Fergusson, 2003

Oxford Thesaurus of English

... slap down, blast, rag, keelhaul; Brit. informal tick off, have a go at, monster, carpet, give someone a carpeting, give someone a mouthful, tear someone off a strip, tear a strip off someone, give someone what for, give someone some stick, wig, ...

Maurice Waite, 2009

Chambers Idioms

... attached (= without instructions or conditions about how it was to be spent). strip strip off (inf) to remove one's clothes: He stripped off and had a shower. tear a strip off (someone)/tear (someone) off a strip inf) to rebuke (a person) very angrily: ...

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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms

... Churchill A Farewell to Yarns Someplace people were having nervous breakdowns and tearing their hair out in a desperate effort to please Phyllis. tear someone limb from limb: see LIMB. tear someone off a strip (or tear a strip off someone) ...

John Ayto, 2010

Oxford Dictionary of English

... or parties: he was torn between his duty and his better instincts. 7noun a hole or split in something caused by it having been pulled apart forcefully. – phrases tear one's hair out informal feel extreme desperation. tear someone off a strip ...

Angus Stevenson, 2010

By Word of Mouth: Metaphor, Metonymy, and Linguistic Action ...

There is punishment as of schoolboys (rap someone over the knuckles, burn someone's ears), in a military context (tear someone off a strip), as torture ( excoriate) or as atonement (bite one's tongue off). The focus is on the experiencer of the ...

‎1995

Conceptualizations and Mental Processing in Language

There is punishment as of schoolboys (rap someone over the knuckles, burn someone's ears, browbeat), in a military context (tear someone off a strip), as torture (excoriate) or as atonement (bite one's tongue off). The focus is on the ...

Richard A. Geiger, Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn, 1993

Englesko-srpski Frazeološki Rečnik: L-Z

(to) rip apart something to tear a strip off someone; to tear someone off a strip coll. x raSlereliti koga; istraniirati koga; iseii koga na froncle sve zargon x When he saw the IRS report, the boss got all steamed and tore a strip off the poor ...

Živorad Kovačević, 1997

Srpsko-engleski rečnik idioma, izraza i izreka

... zestoko is- krltikovati koga/sto; rasCereciti koga zarg. upor. dobiti zestoku grdnju □ to tear someone/something to bits □ to tear a strip off someone/tear someone off a strip coll. □ to tear someone down □ My teacher tore my work to pieces.

Živorad Kovačević, 1991