Idiom
chew off
Meaning
To reprimand, to scold
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“My boss chewed me off for arriving late again.”
“The coach chewed the players off after they lost the game because they did not follow the plan.”
“Following the discovery of the accounting error, the director chewed the entire department off for their lack of attention to detail.”
Examples
simple
“My boss chewed me off for arriving late again.”
contextual
“The coach chewed the players off after they lost the game because they did not follow the plan.”
complex
“Following the discovery of the accounting error, the director chewed the entire department off for their lack of attention to detail.”
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