rapapolvo - translation to English
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rapapolvo - translation to English


rapapolvo      
n. act of ticking someone off
rapapolvo      
= tongue-lashing, telling-off, dressing-down.
Ex: Iranian President went to Columbia University expecting tough questions but instead he got a tongue-lashing from the students.
Ex: Similarly, a class that has been involved in a telling-off for any one of the myriad trivial transgressions their flesh is heir to can arrive at the next lesson aggressively uncooperative or giggly.
Ex: "I just had a royal dressing down by Tilly".
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* echar una rapapolvo = give + Nombre + a dressing-down.
* echar un rapapolvo = tell + Nombe + off, give + Nombre + a telling-off.
rapapolvo      
ticking-off
telling-off
scolding
dressing down
Examples of use of rapapolvo
1. La ministra no estaba en la sala para aguantar el rapapolvo.
2. Lo confirmó en Zaragoza, para desgracia de Hungría, que se llevó un rapapolvo tremendo.
3. En resumen, los resultados son un rapapolvo a la gran coalición entre SPD y CDU, que gobierna el país desde 2005.
4. Es más, los rivales de Morales han celebrado la mediación brasileña a pesar de que Lula les echó un rapapolvo por utilizar la violencia para desafiar al Gobierno.
5. Comentarios - 15 El Parlamento Europeo ha dado hoy un rapapolvo a la política del Gobierno italiano de Silvio Berlusconi contra los gitanos.