bronca
dressing-down ; tongue-lashing ; telling-off ; telling-off ; dust-up.
'I just had a royal dressing down by Tilly'.
Iranian President went to Columbia University expecting tough questions but instead he got a tongue-lashing from the students.
Similarly, a class that has been involved in a telling-off for any one of the myriad trivial transgressions their flesh is heir to can arrive at the next lesson aggressively uncooperative or giggly.
Similarly, a class that has been involved in a telling-off for any one of the myriad trivial transgressions their flesh is heir to can arrive at the next lesson aggressively uncooperative or giggly.
The annual global dust-up over whale hunting is about to kick off again.
armar una bronca
kick up + a fuss
kick up + a stink
raise + a stink
make + a stink (about)
make + a racket
make + a row
make + a ruckus
kick up + a row
brawl
hit + the roof
kick up + a storm
hit + the ceiling
go through + the ceiling
raise + the roof
make + a big deal about
If the cafe say it's butter and it's marge they could be in trouble if anyone cared to kick up a fuss.
Encouraging an interest in maths among grown-ups is fine and dandy, but kicking up a stink about the lack of maths teachers is far more important.
'I'll call the young fellow and tell him there's been a mix-up - I hope his parents don't raise a stink - and I want you to know that it really sticks in my craw, it violates all my principles' = "Llamaré al joven y le diré que ha habido una confusión (espero que sus padres no me armen un escándalo) y quiero que sepas que es algo que me da patadas en el estómago, va en contra de todos mis principios".
After all, making a stink is bad news for any public company, let alone a life-insurance company.
In this illustrated book, children are encouraged to make a racket before slowly quietening down for a sound night's sleep.
Some people have a neurotic, exaggerated sense of self-importance and will nitpick and make a row over just everything in every shop or restaurant.
At most summer camps, children shriek, laugh and generally make a ruckus.
The environmentalists have now kicked up a row over the cutting of trees along the Palace Road charging that the work was illegal.
Once the party was over, some 20000 people carried on celebrating the victory, some of whom began to brawl and hurl objects onto roads.
When she heard that, she hit the roof - and she was still hitting the roof about it almost fifty years after it had happened.
Grams is kicking up a storm at the care home she is currently residing in and is about to have her ass hauled onto the sidewalk if she doesn't quit at it any time soon.
It is by no means certain that Congress will vote soon enough to increase the debt ceiling and some people, for good reason, are hitting the ceiling about that.
I finally told him the night before I left, and he went through the ceiling, just as I expected him to.
I understand he raised the roof when he read the report.
He's the type of person who gets frustrated and makes a big deal about taking the wrong exit on the freeway or has a short fuse when something doesn't get done exactly the way he wants it.
armar un bronca
go through + the roof
Harry was out of the country when the contract was signed, and he went through the roof when he found out about it.
echar una bronca
tell + Nombe + off
give + Nombre + a dressing-down
give + Nombre + a telling-off
chew + Nombre + up
bite + Posesivo + head off
jump down + Posesivo + throat
snap + Posesivo + head off
tear + a strip + Nombre
Teachers should tackle bad behaviour in class by praising their pupils instead of telling them off, according to research published today.
Teachers can reduce a child to tears by picking them out in an assembly and giving her a dressing down in front of the whole school.
A ward sister then arrived and gave them a telling off for not getting on with their work.
A war of words went up when Jewish zealots redacted out this or that word or phrase in order to deny Joshua, and the Christians chewed them up for it.
From the very beginning I have been hard on him because I didn't trust him - sometimes biting his head off and others accusing him of having ulterior motives.
I jumped down his throat because he's a liar, a backstabber, an overall jerk, and a pathetic excuse for a human being.
The manager just about snapped her head off and and berated her in front of us - it was so uncomfortable.
Jenkins was actually in tears because you tore a strip off her for handing in a report ten minutes late!.
echar una buena bronca
give + Nombre + a good roasting
come down on + Nombre + like a ton of bricks
What impressed me was that the rest of the board gave him a good roasting for wasting peoples time.
Sometimes the police tolerated them for a bit but sometimes they came down on them like a ton of bricks as soon as they twigged what they were up to.
echar una (buena) bronca
come down (hard) on
Of course they couldn't possibly come down on the lazy liggers of society - they will come down hard on the people that really need financial help.
echar una buena bronca
give + Nombre + a good roasting
come down on + Nombre + like a ton of bricks
What impressed me was that the rest of the board gave him a good roasting for wasting peoples time.
Sometimes the police tolerated them for a bit but sometimes they came down on them like a ton of bricks as soon as they twigged what they were up to.
