Examples of use of dressing down
1. Evidently, he must have gotten a dressing down for his antics.
2. Dressing down THE musical director of Glyndebourne is setting a fashion trend in deepest Sussex.
3. I rang Mark and told him she needed a dressing–down.
4. Sandstorms ahead Last week my political boss gave our team of advisors a serious dressing down.
5. The defiance prompted Russia‘s Foreign Ministry to summon British Ambassador Anthony Brenton for a dressing down.