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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
The curtain lecture was followed next day by a refusal to allow Mr. Sheridan to have the horses till the account was settled.
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We have reason to believe that there was never even a curtain-lecture delivered on the subject of the purse-silk.
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The tintinnabulations of the wife's curtain lecture are too precious to the enraptured husband to be shared with other ears.
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Eleanore teased, and he was gruff; or he mocked, and Eleanore delivered a curtain lecture.
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This is her plan to make me listen to a curtain-lecture in her room.
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