英语博客-北美风情 95、To tear a strip off someone
时间：2019-01-01 作者：英语课 分类：英语博客-北美风情
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As Harp 1 and Robin 2 explain in this episode, to tear a strip off someone, is to get very upset at them and to express that emotion in a very harsh and angry way. This could involve yelling or screaming, or just very angry, mean words.
As you can imagine, literally 3 getting a strip torn off you would be a very painful experience. Getting a strip torn off you in the idiomatic 4 sense is often very painful in an emotional way!
Other related idioms we talk about in this episode are
-To chew someone out
-To give someone a piece of your mind
n.竖琴；天琴座
- She swept her fingers over the strings of the harp.她用手指划过竖琴的琴弦。
- He played an Irish melody on the harp.他用竖琴演奏了一首爱尔兰曲调。
n.知更鸟，红襟鸟
- The robin is the messenger of spring.知更鸟是报春的使者。
- We knew spring was coming as we had seen a robin.我们看见了一只知更鸟，知道春天要到了。
adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实
- He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
- Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。