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naughty step
noun
- a place where a child is made to stand as a punishment for bad behaviour
- to be on the naughty stepto experience public disfavour, usu. because of perceived wayward behaviour
Example Sentences
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.
From the first Ashes Test last summer, Anderson and Broad have taken their pipe and slippers, while Ollie Robinson is on the naughty step.
Earlier, he tweeted that he was "off the naughty step" and welcomed the government's "re-set".
Of course, no country, big or small, likes sitting on the council's naughty step, and they all try to avoid it.
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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