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read a lecture
Idioms and Phrases
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 .Example Sentences
He'll read a lecture on an aspect of the woman question he's never thought about.
How cordially he entertained that faith, what to him it signified in politics, ethics, religion, may be learned by any who will take pains to read a lecture by him on Transcendentalism, recently published by the Free Religious Association.
I tell thee, Bacon, Oxford makes report, Nay, England, and the Court of Henry says Thou’rt making of a Brazen Head by art, Which shall unfold strange doubts and aphorisms, And read a lecture in philosophy: And, by the help of devils and ghastly fiends, Thou mean’st, ere many years or days be past, To compass England with a wall of brass.
And has not a pessimist, who possesses this serpentine knack of changing his skin, the right to read a lecture to our pessimists of to-day, who are one and all still in the toils of romanticism?
Mr. Garrabrant seized upon the occasion to read a lecture to the scouts, telling them to live up to their motto, "Be prepared," and always keep an eye out when in the woods.
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