RichThesaurus
give someone a dressing-down
vs
haul someone over the coals
give someone a dressing-down
haul someone over the coals
verb
To express anger with someone in no uncertain terms when they do something wrong.
How often have the words
give someone a dressing-down
and
haul someone over the coals
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)