tongue-lashing

But it didn’t always mean he was about to get a tongue-lashing.

But with Trump a semi-regular courtroom presence, the encounters might also serve a political purpose, with the candidate seeming to invite tongue-lashings from judges to bolster his claims of judicial system bias.

It may even be accompanied by a tongue-lashing of the former president.

Meadows claimed he then sent an email pushing the campaign to assemble pro-Trump slates of electors largely because he feared a tongue-lashing from his boss.

The GOP elder statesman gave Santos a tongue-lashing and told him he should sit in the back to avoid embarrassing himself.