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English Dictionary

read (sb) the riot act
to speak angrily to someone about something they have done and warn them that they will be punished if they do it again:

He'd put up with a lot of bad behaviour from his son and thought it was time to read him the riot act.

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Idioms

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read the riot act
read (someone) the riot act
to speak angrily to someone about something they have done and warn them that they will be punished if they do it again.

He'd put up with a lot of bad behaviour from his son and thought it was time to read him the riot act.

read (someone) the riot act
to strongly warn someone to stop behaving badly.

Alice read Randi the riot act, telling her, “If you don't like it here, you can just go back where you came from.”

The secretary of state said she plans to read the riot act to the country's leaders during meetings next week.

Related vocabulary: lay down the law
Etymology: based on the Riot Act (= an English law of 1715 that provided a way to deal with a crowd of people who were causing trouble)
read (someone) the riot act
to strongly warn someone to stop behaving badly.

Alice read Randi the riot act, telling her, “If you don't like it here, you can just go back where you came from.”

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read the riot act
to give someone a strong warning or scolding

The teacher read the riot act to her students when they began to misbehave in class.

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read the riot act
v. phr. To give someone a strong warning or scolding.
Three boys were late to class and the teacher read the riot act to them.

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read someone the riot act
read (someone) the riot act
to speak angrily to someone about something they have done and warn them that they will be punished if they do it again.

He'd put up with a lot of bad behaviour from his son and thought it was time to read him the riot act.

read (someone) the riot act
to strongly warn someone to stop behaving badly.

Alice read Randi the riot act, telling her, “If you don't like it here, you can just go back where you came from.”

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲