be hard on

To treat someone strictly or with severe reproach. I know I didn't do well on the exam, but I didn't expect my dad to be so hard on me about it—he grounded me for a month!

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
JenŐ	-	Hungarian
Saladin	SAL-ə-din (English), SAL-ə-deen (English)	History
Ysabel	-	Spanish (Archaic)
Antiope	-	Greek Mythology
ViÊN	-	Vietnamese
Pankaj	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, Nepali