10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE ROUGH SIDE OF ONE'S TONGUE»
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1
A Collection
of Confusible Phrases
You know who put him on the needle and supplied him? give someone the rough
side of one's tongue give someone tongue give someone the rough side of one 's
tongue speak severely to a person (about a fault, bad behavior, etc.) ...
2
By Word
of Mouth: Metaphor, Metonymy, and Linguistic Action ...
... open when active and closed when passive (open/shut) or the mouth and lips
as moving bodyparts (stop). Similar variations on the same theme can be found
in give tongue, set tongues wagging and give s.o. the rough side of one's tongue.
3
A Dictionary
of Slang and Unconventional English
In give (a lick with) the rough side of (one's) tongue, to scold, abuse: coll.: 1820 (
Scott: OED); ob. by 1930. Cf. dial. givea person the length of one's tongue (EDD).
A more violent version is call (someone) everything (one) can lay (one's) tongue
...
4
The English Fireside: A Tale
of the Past
There'd be no quieting you by wagging the rough side of one's tongue in the style
that I've struck scores of my wisitors dumb. No, no, no. You must be dealt with and
by very different measures." "The croak of a toad has certainly but few terrors ...
5
English proverbs and expressions with Afrikaans equivalents
To give someone a lick with the rough side of one's tongue: To reprimand
someone severely | Iemand skrobbeer; iemand 'n skrobbering gee; iemand
onder jou tong laat deurloop. • The tongue talks at the head's cost: Idle talk can
cause one ...
N. G. Sabbagha, Matthys Stefanus Benjamin Kritzinger, 1991
6
Basic English writers' Japanese-English wordbook
... -SrlA- t say some [any] sharp words to~ about [his] behaviour'/ make a sharp
protest tc— about [his] behaviour / say [make it clear] to~that [he] is a bad boy [girl
]/ give~a bit of [one's] mind/ give ~a taste of the rough side of [one's] tongue U)!
7
Picturesque expressions: a thematic dictionary
... 26.3. give a lick with the rough side of [one's] tongue, 312.26. give a packing
penny to, 138.6. give [someone] a run for [bis] money, 56.4. give [someone] a
taste of [his] own medicine, 320.5. give a whaling to, 298.6. give a wide berth to, ...
Laurence Urdang, Walter W. Hunsinger, Nancy LaRoche, 1985
8
English-Ukrainian phrasebook
741. give (one) a lick with the rough side of one's tongue, to pogmobjihth cyBopo
(3 KUMCb), BHHecTH iioraHy (tcoMycb); due. mote. C-48 ma W-1186; He
contributed an additional zest to the conviviality on that occasion by informing the
...
[SiifiSA] 6 yu shdng ren to give sb ( a lick with ) the rough side of one's tongue/to
make disparaging remarks about sb/to use bad language to insult sb He was
very uncivil and before we had been there five minutes he was giving us the
rough ...
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Русско-английский Фразеологический Словарь Для Переводчика
BBIBOJTOLIKY Bténsonoqicv (H8xno6y'u<y): To reprimand someone badly. = To
give smb a tongue-lashing or the rough side of one's tongue; to chew smb out (or
to chew out smb); to give smb a (good) dressing-down; to make it hot for smb; ...
Сергей Сергеевич Кузьмин, 2001
