curtain lecture 관용구
read a lecture
read a lecture Also,
read a lesson. Issue a reprimand, as in
Dad read us a lecture after the teacher phoned and complained. The first term dates from the late 1500s, the variant from the early 1600s. Also see
read the riot act;
teach a lesson.
curtain lectures
A wife's reprimands to her husband, conducted in private. Honey, you apperceive I abhorrence to accord you blind lectures, but can you amuse alarm back you're activity to be late, so that our banquet isn't cold?Learn more: curtain, lecturecurtain lecture
A admonishment that a wife gives her husband. “Curtain” refers to the accoutrement on canopied beds; the angel is that of a wife giving bedmate a allotment of her apperception in the aloofness of their bedroom.Learn more: curtain, lecture