earful in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for earful in the English»French Dictionary

earful [Brit ˈɪəf(ə)l, Am ˈɪrˌfʊl] N inf

to give sb an earful (scold)

passer un savon à qn inf

to give sb an earful (talk excessively)

assommer qn de paroles

to get an earful (be scolded)

recevoir un savon inf

to get an earful of sb's problems

subir les jérémiades de qn inf

get an earful of this!

écoute un peu ça!

Translations for earful in the French»English Dictionary

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enguirlander enfant

to give sb an earful inf

adulte se faire enguirlander

to get an earful inf (par from)

engueuler enfant

to give [sb] an earful inf

adulte se faire engueuler

to get an earful inf (par from)

en avoir plein les oreilles de qc

to have had an earful of sth

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

When one of her daughters kept trying to cover her with a blanket, she delivered an earful.

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One of the female officers gave me an earful.

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She gave an earful to the medical health officers for the poor maintenance of these hospitals.

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He's also gotten an earful about what's cool, too.

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Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?

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Further down, you find yourself in the fish and poultry section and the cacophony inside can be quite an earful, with shop owners and customers bargaining for a good deal.

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He's about to hear an earful from them.

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He will get an earful for the amount of danger and panic that he had caused.

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They gave him an earful, the concern on their faces reinforcing the seriousness of his situation.

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It builds and teases before bursting into an earful of cymbals and wailing its way to a messy finale.

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