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"Throw the book at him" nghĩa là gì?
19 Oct, 2017
Tony Blair's Visit to Dublin - 4th. September 2010. Photo courtesy William Murphy.
'Throw the book at sb' = ném quyển sách vào mặt ai -> nghĩa là khuyến cáo ai phải tuân theo nội quy, kỷ luật (punish or reprimand severely; to charge or convict someone with as many crimes as is possible); trừng phạt, răn dạy.
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Throw the book at employers hiring illegal workers.
Local politicians meanwhile demanded that the city authorities throw the book at the developer (nhà phát triển bất động sản).
Summing up, the three justices presiding over his trial felt compelled to throw the book at the clergyman, sentencing him to 14 years penal servitude (hình phạt khổ sai) in Australia.
The book-hurler was Barrows’ then 15-year-old daughter, Esme, who had a very good reason to throw the book at her mother, who became a household name with the 2008 bestseller, “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.”
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