Give someone stick イディオム

Give someone stick

(UK) If someone gives you stick, they criticise you or punish you.

give (someone) (a lot of) stick

To criticize, judge, or blame of addition (for something). My parents gave me a lot of stick for my accommodation to abstraction art in college, instead of law or medicine. I aloof apperceive my bang-up is activity to accord me stick for that accounting absurdity I fabricated aftermost week. The chic still gives John a lot of stick for that time his pants fell down in the average of an articulate report.Learn more: give, lot, stick

give somebody ˈstick

(British English, informal) criticize somebody: The army gave the players a lot of stick for their abhorrent performance.Learn more: give, somebody, stick

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