get taken to task (by someone)



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get taken to task (by someone)

To be scolded, rebuked, reprimanded, or criticized (by someone). I got taken to task by the headmaster for disrupting class again. It's not entirely fair that the bankers are the only ones getting taken to task for the economic collapse, when a great many politicians are to blame as well.
See also: get, taken, task

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Yonatan-Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Boipelo-Southern African, Tswana
Tiernan-Irish
Matthijs-Dutch
Nicholson['nikəlsn]
MeinoMIE-no (German, Dutch)German, Dutch, Ancient Germanic