"Give a rocket" nghĩa là gì?
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"Give (one) a rocket" = (thông tục) quở trách, mắng ai/bị quở trách nghiêm khắc.
Ví dụ
I wasn't the best of footballers but I just have to draw on the memory of how, when I had bad days, my dad would find me and give me a rocket.
Paine's inclination (nghiêng, độ xuống dốc) seems always to be to put an arm around a player's shoulders when he makes a mistake rather than give him a rocket.
“To be fair, he’s fairly calm, like any other manager. That said, I think they lost on the Saturday before I went there, and some of the lads said there was a meeting coming up. I didn’t have to be in it, but apparently he did give them a rocket in the changing room (phòng thay đồ).
We thought we were doing fairly well until she recently hit 18 months and found her personality. I knew I was in trouble when I tried to give her a rocket at the pool and she grabbed another girl's mermaid (nàng tiên cá). That was when I started to realize the power of nature over nurture (nuôi dưỡng).
Bin Kuan
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