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Sunny123 Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary

off = ?

Hello everyone. I need the meaning of "off" in the following sentence.

1. I was told off for talking in class.

I was told off for talking in class. = what?

off here = what?
  

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com/tell+off . A partial cut and paste from the link above: Tell someone off to scold someone; to attack someone verbally. ) I was so mad at Bob that I toldhim off.

— BarbaraPA

  • com/tell+off .
  • A partial cut and paste from the link above: Tell someone off to scold someone; to attack someone verbally.
  • ) I was so mad at Bob that I toldhim off.
  • By the end of the day, I had told off everyone else, too.
  • com/tell McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
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See http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/tell+off.

A partial cut and paste from the link above:

Tell someone off

to scold someone; to attack someone verbally. (This has a sense of finality about it.) I was so mad at Bob that I toldhim off. By the end of the day, I had told off everyone else, t
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BarbaraPASee here .A partial cut and paste from the link above: Tell someone offto scold someone; to attack someone verbally. (This has a sense of finality about it.) I was so mad at Bob that I toldhim off. By the end of the day, I had told off everyone else, too.See also: off , tell McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Co
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How would a teacher scold a student in your school?
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