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chide
vs
give someone a dressing-down
chide
verb
To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.
To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.
give someone a dressing-down
How often have the words
chide
and
give someone a dressing-down
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
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