сурово отчитать(за промах, нарушение и т.п. | a dressing-down = a severe reprimand (Merriam-Webster) • "I once did a show called 'Not the Nine O'Clock News', some years ago, and we did a sketch where Griff Rhys Jones played Constable Savage, a manifestly racist police officer to whom I, his station commander, is giving a dressing-down for arresting a black man on a whole string of ridiculous, trumped up and ludicrous charges." (Rowan Atkinson on free speech, and how it is threatened in Britain)ART Vancouver)
