a tongue-lashing 斥責(zé)、訓(xùn)斥
When I was ten years old, mother caught me smoking a cigarette in the backyard. She gave me such a tongue-lashing that I've never touched another cigarette all my life.
我十歲的時(shí)候躲在后院抽香煙時(shí)給媽媽抓到了。她狠狠地訓(xùn)了我一頓,我一輩子再也沒(méi)碰過(guò)香煙。