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pull someone over the coals
vs
read someone the riot act
pull someone over the coals
verb
Synonym of haul someone over the coals
read someone the riot act
verb
To scold or berate somebody; to reprimand.
How often have the words
pull someone over the coals
and
read someone the riot act
occurred in a corpus of books?
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