call on the carpet

Strongest matches

• advise
• berate
• censure
• chide
• enjoin
• exhort
• rebuke
• reprimand
• scold
• upbraid
• warn

Strong matches

• check
• counsel
• ding
• forewarn
• glue
• growl
• hoist
• notice
• rap
• reprove

Weak matches

• call down
• come down hard on
• draw the line
• give a going over
• give a piece of one's mind
• jack up
• rap on knuckles
• sit on
• slap on wrist
• speak to
• talk to
• tell a thing or two
• tell off

Weak matches

• read the riot act
• take to task
• tongue-lash

Strongest matches

• admonish
• berate
• blame
• castigate
• censure
• condemn
• rebuke
• reprimand
• reproach
• scold
• upbraid

Strong matches

• check
• flay
• monish
• rate
• reprehend
• reprove

Weak matches

• call down
• exprobate
• find fault
• give a hard time
• lesson
• slap on the wrist
• speak to
• take down
• take down a peg
• talk to
• tell off
• tick off

Strong matches

• abuse
• baste
• berate
• blame
• censure
• rail
• rate
• revile
• scold
• upbraid
• vituperate

Weak match

• tongue-lash

Strongest matches

• admonish
• berate
• castigate
• censure
• chide
• go after
• oppose
• reprimand
• reproach
• scold
• upbraid

Strong matches

• blame
• fry
• give a talking-to
• jawbone
• lecture
• lesson
• monish
• pay
• rake
• read
• reprehend
• reprove
• rip
• zap

Weak matches

• bawl out
• carp on
• chew out
• climb all over
• dress down
• jump down one's throat
• jump on
• lay into
• lean on
• sit on
• sound off
• take to task
• tear apart
• tell off
• tick off

Strongest matches

• admonish
• castigate
• censure
• chide
• criticize
• denounce
• rebuke
• reproach
• upbraid

Strong matches

• lecture
• monish
• rap
• reprehend
• reprove

Weak matches

• chew out
• come down on
• dress down
• give piece of one's mind
• give the dickens
• light into
• lower the boom
• take to task
• tell off
• tick off

Strong matches

• berate
• bicker
• brawl
• dispute
• jaw
• quarrel
• ream
• scold
• scrap
• spat
• squabble
• tiff
• wrangle

Weak matches

• bawl out
• tongue-lash