tongue-lashing

Spencer once dreamed of coaching big-time college football and his blunt, salty style could have served him well barking orders from the sideline or delivering a tongue-lashing locker-room speech.

Her tongue-lashing is hilarious, at least to us.

But it didn’t always mean he was about to get a tongue-lashing.

But with Trump a semi-regular courtroom presence, the encounters might also serve a political purpose, with the candidate seeming to invite tongue-lashings from judges to bolster his claims of judicial system bias.

It may even be accompanied by a tongue-lashing of the former president.