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"telling-off" Definitions
  1. the act of speaking angrily to somebody, especially a child, because they have done something bad

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Several going through and telling off members of the media.
"Should I go give that guy a telling off?" she asked.
Beyond that, she's also our number one role model in telling off haters.
There wasn't a huge telling-off; she knows what kids get up to.
Officials in Hubei Province, where the outbreak began, received an implicit telling off.
You can tell he got a proper telling off by the pure sass in his new invitation description.
Like quitting smoking or quitting an underpaid job, possibly after really telling off your boss one last time.
"I determined it a couple of years ago and I got a telling off from my wife," he said.
Just this past week, the social media team over at Merriam-Webster went viral for politely telling off Kellyanne Conway.
I got a mild-to-medium telling off and had to sweep the flowers up, but my parents were not informed.
So, know that your mum has your back, and she'll give the chap a jolly good telling off should that be required.
Bee said it was for telling off-color jokes about women during an open mic when he was trying out new material.
Whether she's talking about having sex at "that Obama thing," or telling off Twitter haters, the supermodel routinely shares a brilliant inner monologue.
Big Boo had no problem telling off a bunch of Trump supporters what's up at a Hillary Clinton event Monday night in NYC.
He simply believed in giving harsh feedback in private, and was usually adept enough to make the recipient grateful for the telling-off.
She's been making headlines with her Twitter, as always, but this time it's not for shading an unnamed movie or telling off her haters.
The short commercial shows a mother giving her daughter a good telling off for not "bringing home a boyfriend" to meet her hopeful parents.
Steve telling Aimee he misses talking to her is a sweet moment, while Viv finally telling off the Rubik's Cube-obsessed Dex is cathartic.
Unlike Pompeo or South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham, Bolton is not prone to backslapping or telling off-color jokes to establish rapport with Trump.
You might imagine going out in a blaze of glory — telling off your jerk boss, or pulling a Devil Wear's Prada and simply walk out.
We're told that parent went onto the field and pulled her kid out of the camp immediately, telling off a camp staffer in the process.
I don't know whether Mollie Miles really drove the family station wagon all over the road while telling off her husband, but I don't care.
At a CSU party conference in November 2015, Merkel defended her open-door refugee policy — only to receive a stinging telling-off on stage by Seehofer.
While Gregg is a coward, Ford continues trashing around in his own eggo, telling off the OPR and calling them feeble for trying to censure him.
So, in an epic clap back, King posted photos of herself giving the middle finger with a caption telling off the commenter and people like him.
Iratxe García is the socialist Spanish member of the European Parliament whose parliamentary telling off of Polish MEP Janusz Korwin-Mikke last week went wildly viral.
China's English-language newspaper the Global Times shared footage in January showing a drone telling off citizens for going out without masks or to stay indoors.
Somehow, it's hard to imagine Mirren drinking an ice-cold Bud, but she's clearly having fun telling off a theoretical drunk driver for his or her stupidity.
No more undertakers in black suits clutching handkerchiefs, old buddies weeping in corners, telling off-color stories, nipping shots, no more covered mirrors, black dresses, skullcaps and crucifixes.
And she stepped a little further into the spotlight in "Argestes," telling off Shiv and just generally trying to support Logan while also seeming sick of him in general.
The song, which teases her many alleged feuds and dramatic breakups, is essentially telling off anyone who thought her so-called "bad" behavior over the past few years was unjustified.
She had the air of a woman who could balance a checkbook, and who knew a good deal when she saw it, and who would tell off whomever needed telling off.
After knowing Alex Karev (Justin Chambers) went from the ultra-macho doctor whose main hobby was telling off nurses in the Grey's pilot to Meredith's BFF, I have faith in Station 19.
After telling off General Brockhart for continually bringing up his military record (hmmm… what's that about?), the Republican candidate tries to take his children trick-or-treating just as troops roll up.
"An elderly lady has been telling off an elderly man, in a nice way, because he is wearing a mask and she is telling him it is of no use," Toniolo said.
Stefanos Tsitsipas suffered a mid-match meltdown at the ATP Cup on Tuesday in which he accidentally hit his father with his racket, earning himself a courtside telling off from his mom.
Whether it's splitting daily chores, telling off your enemy (see No. 17 below) or busting out a magically choreographed-in-advanced dance sequence at any point in time, together, anything is possible. 17.
The 60-second spot, which was created by ad agency Anomaly New York, will run during the Big Game on Sunday along with a PSA-style ad of Helen Mirren telling off drunk drivers.
Two other sketches in the episode — involving a smartphone video of a woman telling off a public masturbator, and a man delivering an argument for other men to quit harassing women on the street — fall similarly short.
While some praised Mr. Bernstein for his energy and enthusiasm, others complained about his management style, namely his telling off-color jokes and addressing female employees as "Sweetie" and "Honey," the people briefed on the matter said.
In what can only be described as a stern telling-off, the Queen calls off Mountbatten's dogs and sends him to see his sister, Princess Alice, who reminds him they're old, and this is no longer their problem.
He played sparingly—he was joining a stacked team at age 37, so it makes sense—and his most memorable Heat highlight was telling off a young Lance Stephenson for throwing a choke gesture at James in the playoffs.
Unlike at various other times on Game of Thrones, in "The Door," at least, Sansa's moments of winning far outnumber her moments of losing — especially when it comes to telling off Littlefinger for treating her as a bargaining chip.
In early 2018, a plane flying from Dubai to Amsterdam had to make an emergency landing in Austria due to a passenger's refusal—after a stern telling off from the pilot, mind you—to cease and desist with the crop dusting.
The survey also found that women were markedly less confident in calling out inappropriate behavior, with 48% of women saying they would be confident in telling off a senior colleague for making a sexist comment, compared with 58% of men.
Donald Trump Jr. is also known for frequently telling off-the-cuff stories about his father to donors at fundraising luncheons, dinners or small gatherings including a recent hunting trip in Texas with the late Republican donor T. Boone Pickens.
The Intern actress has come to Lawrence's defense after the Joy star raised eyebrows for telling off a reporter who remained focused on his phone during an interview with Lawrence at Sunday's Golden Globes, where she took home the award for best actress in a comedy or musical.
But there were also cheers when he spoke about telling off his more progressive colleagues on "Medicare for All," voting against Pelosi's speakership on the floor and his commitment to working with Trump — showcasing the kind of independent streak that Brindisi's supporters hope will keep him in Congress.
While others have tried — most memorably Don Blankenship, a mining executive and ex-convict who ran unsuccessfully for a Senate seat in West Virginia — a Grimm victory would supply a more credible blueprint: Crying "fake news" and telling off enemies is a start, but charisma counts, and abiding ties to constituents do not hurt, either.
The scene draws us in, and her expression and stance are surprisingly familiar: she recalls a mother waiting up for her child to return from an outing, or a woman waiting for her working partner — but she's clearly ready to welcome whoever is coming home late with a firm telling-off that many of us know well.
The video ends with Scherzinger telling off Timbaland and saying that she does not need what he gives her but would like it back. Scherzinger sings full lead along with Melody Thornton who also adds the minor adlibs.
Also, the LaserDisc release of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is the only format to include the cut scene of Harrison Ford, in the role of the school principal, telling off Elliott for letting the frogs free in the biology class.
Stories about the Marukos often only describe the stern disembodied voice of an old man, telling off whatever group had earned his ire. In an 1887 account, however, the story speaks of an old man in a white "camisa" whose aged flesh looked like that of a corpse.
Matthews gave birth five weeks early to a daughter, Brooke, early in 2011. At five months old, Brooke was diagnosed with meningitis, which Matthews herself had at seven years old. In October 2016, a video showing Brooke telling off the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Theresa May, went viral. Matthews also has a daughter called Texas born in 2013.
A few days later he walking past the bank in Hawick and he heard a tap on the window. It was Robert Scott, the President of the SRU and also the bank's manager, and he beckoned McLaren inside. He was marched past the tellers and into the manager's office whereupon Scott gave him a telling off. 'Billy. Dinnae do it.
Nonetheless, he commented: "I heard she put out a song that's about me, or about some old habits or whatever. [And] I look at it like this: I'm just stoked that she finally has a song with some substance on her record. Good job." "Circle the Drain" is a rant song where, lyrically, Perry is telling off a self-destructive drug-addicted ex-boyfriend.
He later told his father that he wanted the respect he gets from making people fear him. After a dramatic telling off from his father, he finally reveals the reason why he came back: someone made a homophobic comment about his father, and reacted violently. In the middle of the night, he runs away. The next day, Brendan and Cheryl search everywhere but cannot find him.
Dru eventually marries Neil Winters, but only after many trials and mistakes. One such misstep, is posing nude for a magazine, though Jill Abbott (Jess Walton) discovers and destroys the film. Over time, Dru eventually evolves into a glamorous model. In June 1993, after marrying Neil, Drucilla finally receives closure by telling off her mother for wanting to abort her and not showing love for her as a child.
Turkington is best known for creating anti-comedian Neil Hamburger. In 1992, Turkington released an album of prank phone calls with several tracks featuring an early version of the character and soon after began developing a stand-up comedian persona. The character constantly clears his throat while telling off-paced jokes that, for the most part, fail. Neil's unique brand of comedy has thrilled, perplexed and repulsed audiences worldwide.
The client, whose mother was actually obese and is now deceased, drops Dunder Mifflin as their paper supplier, leaving them simultaneously excited over getting that last complaint and disappointed over losing a client. After celebrating the completion of the card tower, Pam finally starts painting the mural, saying artists should not care too much in what others think, further asserting this by telling off Hide (Hidetoshi Imura) when he insults her artwork.
Lyrically, it is a hip hop song about being true to one's self and telling off people trying to "copy and paste" them. "Copy, Paste" peaked at numbers 21 and 24 on the US Hot Rap Songs and US Hot R&B;/Hip-Hop Songs charts respectively. A music video, directed by Phil the God, was created for the single that features Diggy tied up as a laboratory experiment for scientists to clone.
He is last seen in Series 2 when, having already been alienated by the introduction of TV cameras and film crews into the House of Commons, Sir Stephen witnesses Piers inflating an blow-up Alan B'Stard doll in a suggestive manner. Sir Stephen gives Piers a stern telling-off before declaring that he "might as well accept that peerage" and then leaves the office, suggesting that he moved up to the House of Lords.
"Vernon and the Vibrations" supposedly ended their career. Vernon is also told off by his father who claims that he should wake up, becoming a singer was impossible for him. Gavin's sadism and extreme life gets on Gwen's nerves, who then resigns being the Kosmos team manager, telling off Sonny. Sonny himself, like his son becomes a sadist, even going so far to being harsh on Tai Po when Tai Po was previously his best worker.
The episode's subplot involving Chris Diamantopoulos was met with scorn by most critics. Michael Tedder of Vulture awarded the episode—along with "Junior Salesman"—four stars out of five. He enjoyed Kevin's telling off the Senator for his poor treatment of his friends and family, and said "that it came with Kevin's halting delivery just made it better." However, he was critical of the Brian subplot, calling it "the least interesting way this camera crew reveal could have gone".
During his time in France, three different people asked him innocently if he were English as he spoke French with an accent. Cowburn was described by author Clare Mulley as short, stocky, and taciturn, "the very picture of a 'dour north-countryman.'" Moreover, he was blunt spoken with a "directness of manner" that was "disconcerting." He was known for his fondness of telling off-color ("blue") stories which made him popular in the officer's mess while in England.
The album follow with "Circle the Drain", a rant song where, lyrically, Perry is telling off a self-destructive drug-addicted ex-boyfriend. Its candid lyrics also discuss the strains his addiction put on both of them. In the track's chorus, she sings about how she wants to be his lover, not someone who has to take care of him, such as a maternal figure. She also sings about how he had ultimately lost large opportunities.
While running the Gauntlet in the international series final, Huthart got into a spot of bother with American Gladiator, Ice, who was the first Gladiator she had to get past. As Huthart ran towards her, Ice raised her Ramrod and struck Huthart in the face. Huthart got to the end in just over 20 seconds which earned her five points. However, Huthart lost her cool and went back after Ice which earned her a telling off from referee, John Anderson.
LeAnn Rimes is the eponymous fourth studio album by LeAnn Rimes, released in 1999. The album consists of covers of many popular old country hits, including several Patsy Cline songs. The only new song featured on the album is "Big Deal", a bouncy honky-tonk single which details a bitter Rimes telling off a friend who's madly in love with and happily dating Rimes' ex. The album peaked at #8 on the Billboard 200 and at #1 on the Top Country Albums chart.
An accompanying music video directed by Hannah Lux Davis premiered July 12, 2018. Musgraves begins the video as an employ in an office purportedly from the 1970s with an inappropriate boss. Musgraves's character fantasizes about telling off her annyoing co-workers and escaping to be with friends, resulting in surrealist daydreams involving a Japanese karaoke bar and an eventual departure from the office atop a white horse. The video's style and themes have been likened to the popular 1980 film, 9 to 5.
A chase eventually ensues through the services and along a motorway tunnel bridge, and Shannon shoots Paddy in the bottom. He's on the verge of firing at Max too, but Paddy quickly recovers, and bashes Shannon around the head with a traffic cone, using Peter Kay's TV catchphrase of "'Ave It!" in the process. With Shannon now unconscious and arrested, Max and Paddy slip away from a police telling-off - due to the fact that earlier in the episode they cut down a speed camera - and escape into the night. This episode had 3.26m viewers.
Arlo Pear (Pryor) is a transportation engineer living in the New Jersey suburbs. One day he goes to work and meets a new female co-worker, and when both of them attempt to enter their keys in the same office doorknob, Arlo guesses what has happened and confronts his boss, Roy Hendersen. He learns that his company has merged with another, and now Arlo is out of a job. He ends the meeting by telling off his boss and in his state of anger, he flips Roy off using his index finger.
These segments start with Jon Stewart in the title and are often followed by something that, while related to the topic, can easily be misinterpreted as rude or unacceptable behavior. Such captions include Jon Stewart Looks at Kids junk, a look at recent technology advances, or Jon Stewart's Big Gay Problem, which was an intended name change for the Gaywatch segment, now known as We're here, We're Queer, Get Newsed to it. When the name of the segment is introduced, it is followed by Jon turning towards back stage and telling off the crew.
North Middlesex Hospital where Climbié was discharged after being treated for severe scalding On 24 July 1999, Climbié was taken by Kouao to the accident-and-emergency department at North Middlesex Hospital with severe scalding to her head and other injuries. When the doctors gave a vivid description of Kouao telling off Climbié, Climbié immediately jumped out of bed and stood to attention; she was so frightened that she wet herself. The hospital found no evidence of scabies. Consultant Mary Rossiter felt Climbié was being abused but still wrote 'able to discharge' on her notes.
He hit 12 goals in 39 games to become the club's top scorer in 1989–90, including two in wins over Rangers at Easter Road and Ibrox, and one in Europe against Hungarian side Videoton. "Hibs" exited the UEFA Cup at the Second Round following defeat to Belgian club Liège. Already riled by a telling off from manager Alex Miller, Houchen had a run in with his own supporters following a defeat to Raith Rovers at Stark's Park. Following this confrontation he was singled out for abuse at Easter Road.
Chloe flees, distraught, and wanders off into the streets of Manchester ("Love Ain't Here Anymore"). In Ash's backstage dressing room, he is preparing to go on stage to perform his own entry in the 'Battle of the Bands' competition. His mum gives him a 'right good telling off' for the way he has treated Chloe, when Annie enters to tell Ash he should be warming up. Babs and Annie have a massive argument, during which Annie reveals that the money he was expecting for his deal actually went to Ron to Buy him out of his previous contract.
Murder at the Savoy is the English title of the novel. The Swedish title of the book, meaning "Police, police, mashed potatoes", is explained in a scene where Gunvald Larsson is telling off the miserably lazy policemen Kristiansson and Kvant. The two policemen had, instead of obeying their orders to arrest a suspect at Arlanda Airport, been arguing with a man whose 3-year-old son had shouted "Police, police, mashed potatoes" at the two policemen while they were eating Hot Dog with mashed potatoes at a grill bar. This refers to the common rhyme "polis polis potatisgris" ("police, police, potato pig").
Elizabeth Goodman of Rolling Stone speculated that the use of guards in riot gear is a reference to Alias. Tom Breihan of The Village Voice described the clip as a "quick-and-dirty" video and a "fast montage of disconnected and disconnecting images". Roger Friedman of Fox News called it a "bizarre video depicting a wildly angry and unappealing Beyoncé telling off someone (maybe Jay-Z?) for cheating as if she were an enraged guest on Maury Povich." The staff members of Pitchfork Media included the music video at number twenty-one on the list of Top 25 Music Videos of 2006.
At the moment, it is said his first child was conceived of a surrogate mother. He is on record as to having said he is contemplating joining servant-hood and dedicating his life to service and philanthropy. In a live interview, he admitted his relationships have left him broken and hurt and he was in no shape to ever love a woman the way he's loved those who loved him then. Eastlandah was known for his abrasive approach to work, often appearing in hoods and jeans at Nation Media Group, and unapologetically telling off his seniors.
However, she did not know that Billy and Melissa had not yet had sex, as they had had problems finding a suitable place. Billy's brother, Mal, offered the couple the use of his house, but Billy and Melissa were interrupted by Mal's girlfriend, Danni Stark (Eliza Szonert) and Angie Rebecchi (Lesley Baker). Melissa received a "telling-off" from her mother over the condoms and the couple's plans to have sex were put on hold. When their parents began to fear that the relationship was getting "too serious", Billy and Melissa promised that they would wait to have sex.
However, just after he leaves and Melanie feels guilty for doing it to him, Victoria and Joy tell her the truth; causing her to rush to the airport to find Anders. She manages to catch up to Anders at baggage check and tells him how she feels - in a profanity-laced telling off berating him for his actions towards her and Kim. Shortly after this incident, Melanie declares she is done with her marriage and throws away her wedding ring; which lands near a police officer named Pete. The two begin talking and eventually begin going out.
The following day, Donny befriends Hod while hunting. Soon after, Hod, returning from a fishing trip on his boat with his partner, Portuguese Joe Sanger, discovers Donny on his lobster bank, having rowed out to it in a dingy and stolen two of Hob's lobsters, without knowing they belonged to Hod and Joe. Hod gives him a good telling off and returns him home to Mary and suggests that she let Donny work for him on his boat on Saturdays. She agrees and Donny is very happy out at sea on the boat and even catches a large halibut, his share of the catch earning him $5.75.
He listened a lot to T-Bone Walker when he was young. He acknowledges as influences the guitarists L. C. Robinson, Pee Wee Crayton and B. B. King and the singer Percy Mayfield. With his first band, Clarence Smith and the Daylighters, he played blues clubs in the Austin area until he joined the Navy after high school graduation. In the Navy, he was stationed in California, where he worked for a while as a radio man and closed-circuit Navy ship disc jockey, telling off-color jokes in between the country and blues records he would spin for the entertainment of the sailors.
When Otfried Preußler was a child, his grandmother Dora told him stories very often. One of these stories was about a White Lady (ghost) who predicted births and deaths in the family of her descendants and who moreover protected her home very often. Once, the white lady closed away the Swedish General Torstenson Torstenson from the castle of her father, by shooing him out of his bed, giving him a telling off, while he was only wearing his night clothes and begging for mercy. Preußler always kept this scene in mind and while he was writing the book of the history of the white lady, the white lady converted to the Little Ghost.
It is the 1950s. Ben Webber is a cocky but disillusioned young man who has spent the last few years of his life waiting for a neighborhood girl—in his eyes, the epitome of lost virtue and beauty—to reach the age of consent so that he can marry her. Ben comes frustrated with his life, though, and leaves his family home in New England to travel to New York in hopes of finding himself. Despite possessing a near-genius IQ, Ben feels no need to strive in academics, instead choosing to toil away in a number of dead-end, low-paying jobs, which he invariably quits or gets fired from after either telling off his boss or getting caught stealing.
But if the employer is not justified in making a summary dismissal, the employee has a claim under ERA 1996 section 13 for a shortfall in wages. The same principle, that a serious breach of contract gives the other side the option to terminate,See also Laws v London Chronicle (Indicator Newspapers) Ltd [1959] 1 WLR 698, holding that an employee's failure to obey an employer's instruction was a breach of contract, but not one serious enough to justify termination without notice. also works in favour of employees. In Wilson v Racher[1974] ICR 428 a gardener was bullied by his employer, the heir of Tolethorpe Hall, and gave him a rude telling off for not picking up some string on the lawn.
Complex described its "Do what you want, what you want with my body" hook as "catchy and somewhat raunchy". The song's lyrics represent Gaga telling off detractors that her thoughts, dreams, and feelings are her own, no matter what one says about her. Jim Farber of New York Daily News suggested "Do What U Want" to be a response to "everyone who ever made a tart comment about her — which, by now, involves half the planet". Gaga and Kelly alternate singing the lines "Do what u want/ What u want with my body/ Do what u want/ What u want with my body/ Write what you want, say what you want about me/ If you want you know that I'm not sorry".
The song is "a lot more rock based than the songs before it on the album" and has "a real pop vibe". "Do What U Want" is an electropop and R&B; track, drawing influence from 1980s-inspired throbbing synths and an electronic beat. It has a "somewhat raunchy hook", with Gaga and Kelly alternate singing the lines "Do what u want/ What u want with my body/ Do what u want/ What u want with my body/ Write what you want, say what you want about me/ If you're wondering, know that I'm not sorry". The song's lyrics represent themes of sexual submissiveness, with Gaga telling off detractors and the press that her thoughts, dreams, and feelings are her own, no matter what one does with her body.
Müller with Bayern Munich in Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 2011 Müller returned from his post-World Cup break to sign another contract extension, this time extending his stay at Bayern until 2015. As with all of Bayern's World Cup participants, he missed much of pre-season, and his first match back was the Supercup against Schalke 04 on 7 August. He was named in the starting 11, and scored the opening goal in a 2–0 win. Two weeks later he scored the opening goal of Bayern's league season in a 2–1 home win against VfL Wolfsburg. Müller played in every match of the first half of the season, usually as a starter, but as the team struggled for results, Müller was unable to match the previous season's goalscoring exploits, being dropped to the bench, and even receiving a telling off from Louis van Gaal after missing an easy chance in a 2–0 defeat against 1.
The series is about lazy, bungling, incompetent civil servants, "Number One" – Roland Hamilton-Jones (Wilfrid Hyde-White) and later Deryck Lennox-Brown (Deryck Guyler), "Number Two" – Richard Lamb (Richard Murdoch), with their dim, typo-prone, teenage secretary, Mildred Murfin (Norma Ronald), all watched-over by the lecherous, pompous, self-seeking Permanent Under-Secretary Sir Gregory Pitkin (Roy Dotrice and later Ronald Baddiley), all members of the British Civil Service based in Whitehall. The stories centred on their General Assistance Department (analogous to the "Department of Administrative Affairs" in the later Yes Minister), which helps other governmental departments. Instead of assistance, the department creates mix-ups, misunderstandings and cock-ups that lead to a telling-off from Sir Gregory, who sees his 'hard earned' Civil Service career and pension disappearing. In one 1960s episode, "The Big Rocket", General Assistance Department is put in charge of publicity for Britain's almost non- existent space programme.

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