Idiom
give someone hell
Meaning
To castigate someone; to dress them down.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“My boss gave me hell for being late again.”
“When the team missed the deadline, the manager gave them hell during the morning meeting.”
“The strict professor gave the students hell for their lack of preparation before the final examination.”
Examples
simple
“My boss gave me hell for being late again.”
contextual
“When the team missed the deadline, the manager gave them hell during the morning meeting.”
complex
“The strict professor gave the students hell for their lack of preparation before the final examination.”
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