Does "get bleated" mean "are banned (in euphemist form)"?

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Context:'We only brought her out for two weeks. I don’t want to say anymore - you should speak to my husband.'But one angry parent said: 'Mr Lawton is an absolute disgrace and is not worthy of his position as governor. Parents get constantly bleated at about taking their kids out of school to go on holidays - and he of all people should know all about that.MOre:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2548619/Parents-fury-school-governor-takes-13-year-old-daughter-classes-fortnight-Costa-Del-Sol-insists-case-extraordinary.html

GPY · Accepted Answer

"parents get bleated at" --- someone complains to the parents about the parents' behaviour

"anymore" should be "any more".

NL888 · Answer

taking their kids out of school?  But this school governor just took his own daughter to a holiday travel. Why did the parents complain?

GPY · Answer

NL888taking their kids out of school? But this school governor just took his own daughter to a holiday travel. Why did the parents complain?

The people complaining would normally not be the parents but the teachers or other authorities (this is what "parents get constantly bleated at" is referring to). In this case, though, the parents are saying something like "the teachers / other authorities always complain to us (ordinary) parents if we take our children out of school for holidays, so it is hypocritical of governors to do the same thing themselves".

Blue Jay · Answer

By the way, bleat literally means the noise made by a sheep, and metaphorically to bleat means to complain in a weak and foolish manner, such that the complaints cause the listener to think of a sheep bleating.

Does "get bleated" mean "are banned (in euphemist form)"?

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