curtain lecture

A reprimand that a wife gives her husband. “Curtain” refers to the drapery on canopied beds; the image is that of a wife giving hubby a piece of her mind in the privacy of their bedroom.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Jacobson	['dʒeikəbsn]
AliÉNor	a-lye-NOR (French)	Occitan
EulÀLia	-	Catalan
Buchanan	[bju:'kænən]
Bojana	-	Slovene, Macedonian, Serbian, Croatian
Vittore	veet-TO-re	Italian