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haul someone over the coals
vs
slap someone's wrist
haul someone over the coals
verb
To express anger with someone in no uncertain terms when they do something wrong.
slap someone's wrist
How often have the words
haul someone over the coals
and
slap someone's wrist
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
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