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
Heleentje	hay-LAY:N-tyə	Dutch
Penuel	-	Biblical, Biblical Hebrew
Alisa	ah-LEE-sah (Russian), AH-lee-sah (Finnish)	Russian, Finnish
Hutton	['hʌtn]
Miles	['mailz]
Patrizia	pah-TREE-tsyah	Italian