tear off a strip

tear somebody off a strip

(British informal) also tear a strip off somebody (British & Australian informal)

to speak angrily to someone because they have done something wrong He tore her off a strip for being late.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Lea	LE-ah (German, Finnish)	German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Slovene, Croatian
Jessie	['dʒesi]
Ananta	-	Hinduism
Denis	de-NEE (French), DEN-is (English), DE-nis (German)	French, Russian, English, German, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Romanian, Croatian
Bonnie	['bɔni]
Hikari	hee-kah-ṙee	Japanese