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| tear a strip off |
scold, lecture, criticize, give you hell [B]
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Kasan's father tore a strip off him for missing a day of school.
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| tear around |
go fast, run here and there, drive around
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When Ty was young, he liked to tear around town in his car.
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| tear me apart |
criticize me or my work, find all my faults
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If you waste tax dollars, the voters will tear you apart.
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| tearjerker |
a sad story, a story or song that causes tears, move you to tears
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Have you seen For Whom The Bell Tolls? It's sad - a real tearjerker!
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| teed off |
upset, cross, ticked off
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She was teed off about the errors in the balance sheet.
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| teed up |
ready to operate, ready to use
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"Is your presentation ready?" "Yes. All teed up, ready to go."
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| teeny-weeny |
very small, tiny, itsy-bitsy
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Look at its teeny-weeny tail! It's so cute!
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| tell a soul |
(See won't tell a soul)
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| tell all |
tell everything you know, pour out your soul
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In a job interview, I answer their questions, but I don't tell all.
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| tell him a thing or two |
tell him he caused a problem, tell him off
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If Sid took my keys, I'm going to tell him a thing or two.
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