piece of one's mind

Frank and severe criticism, censure, as in Chuck was furious and gave him a piece of his mind. The word piece here is used in the sense of "portion," but the portion of the mind alluded to always has a negative opinion. [Second half of 1500s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Morgan (2)	-	Arthurian Romance
Casimir	KAZ-i-meer (English)	English, French
Thaddeus	THAD-ee-əs (English)	English, Biblical, Biblical Latin
Seong-Jin	sung-jeen	Korean
HonorÉ	o-no-RE	French
Teodor	te-AW-dawr (Polish), TE-o-dor (Croatian)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Romanian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Hungarian,