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naughty step

noun

  1. a place where a child is made to stand as a punishment for bad behaviour
  2. to be on the naughty step
    to experience public disfavour, usu. because of perceived wayward behaviour
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Sale captain Rob du Preez found himself in the sin-bin two minutes later for a late hit on Suleiman Hartzenberg before Carpenter joined him on the naughty step for a deliberate knock-on.

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From the first Ashes Test last summer, Anderson and Broad have taken their pipe and slippers, while Ollie Robinson is on the naughty step.

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Earlier, he tweeted that he was "off the naughty step" and welcomed the government's "re-set".

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Of course, no country, big or small, likes sitting on the council's naughty step, and they all try to avoid it.

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In the process, he wrecked his relationship with the DUP and earned himself a rebuke from its then leader Arlene Foster who said her party had sent him to the "naughty step in Parliament".

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