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curtain lecture
noun
- Older Use. a scolding administered in private by a wife to her husband.
curtain lecture
noun
- a scolding or rebuke given in private, esp by a wife to her husband
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Word History and Origins
Origin of curtain lecture1
First recorded in 1625–35
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Word History and Origins
Origin of curtain lecture1
alluding to the curtained beds where such rebukes were once given
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Example Sentences
Her grandmother treated him to what were referred to as “curtain lectures.”
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She seemed to me to be more forward than ever that morning, and I felt a suspicion that I was going to get a curtain lecture.
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Mrs. Caudle herself would scarcely hazard a curtain lecture with this atrocious alternative in prospect.
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Her discourse would have rendered the poor man very uneasy, indeed, had not "luck" extricated him from his dilemma on the next day succeeding the curtain lecture.
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Many were the curtain lectures which were inflicted upon the poor barber.
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