to strip (off)

  • 11tear a strip off someone — ► tear someone off a strip (or tear a strip off someone) Brit. informal rebuke someone angrily. Main Entry: ↑tear …

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  • 12tear a strip off someone — tear someone off a strip/tear a strip off someone/british informal phrase to criticize someone angrily for doing something wrong Thesaurus: to criticize stronglysynonym to say something, or to speak to someone in an angry waysynonym Main entry …

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  • 13tear a strip off somebody — tear sb ˈoff a strip | tear a ˈstrip off sb idiom (BrE, informal) to speak angrily to sb who has done sth wrong Main entry: ↑tearidiom …

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  • 14tear a strip off somebody — verb To scold vigorously. The boss tore a strip off him for arriving late to the meeting. Syn: excoriate, give somebody a dressing down, haul somebody over the coals, give somebody a telling off, read somebody the riot act, tell somebody off …

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  • 15take a strip off — scold, lecture, give you hell    The foreman took a strip off me for driving too fast. He was mad …

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  • 16tear a strip off — scold, lecture, criticize, give you hell [B]    Kasan s father tore a strip off him for missing a day of school …

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  • 17tear a strip off — phrasal Britain : to bawl out : scold * * * tear a strip off ( ● tear …

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  • 18strip — strip1 [strip] vt. stripped, stripping [ME strepen < OE stripan, akin to streifen, to strip off < IE * streub < base * ster , to streak, stroke > STRIKE] 1. to remove (the clothing or covering) of or from (a person); make naked;… …

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  • 19To strip off — Удалять (из текста ненужную информацию) …

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  • 20strip — strip1 [strıp] v past tense and past participle stripped present participle stripping ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(take off clothes)¦ 2¦(remove)¦ 3¦(engines/equipment)¦ 4¦(building/ship etc)¦ 5¦(damage)¦ Phrasal verbs  strip something<=>away  strip somebod …

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