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"Tell off" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... we want is revolutionary preparedness. We want to organize.... We want a mobilization plan and an organization for the revolution. We want to get rifles, machine guns, field artillery, and the ammunition for it. You want to get dynamite. You want to tell off the men for the revolution when it starts here. You want to tell off the men who are to take the dynamite to the armory doors and blow them in and capture the guns and ammunition there so that the capitalists won't have any. You want to tell off the men to dynamite the ...
— The Red Conspiracy • Joseph J. Mereto
... gods. After slaughtering the pigs or fowls to whose charge they have committed their petitions, they examine their entrails in the hope of discovering the answer of the gods; and at the same time they tell off two or three men to look for omens from the birds of the jungle.[95] If the omens first obtained are bad, more fowls and pigs are usually killed and omens again observed; and in an important matter, E.G. the illness of a beloved child, the process may be repeated ...
— The Pagan Tribes of Borneo • Charles Hose and William McDougall |
Words linked to "Tell off" : take to task, jaw, lecture, rebuke, chew out, chide, chew up, lambaste, brush down, scold, call down, bawl out, trounce, have words, remonstrate, berate, reproof, reprimand, rag, lambast, call on the carpet, dress down |
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