have words
       v : censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child
           for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the
           Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter
           for bringing cold soup" [syn: call on the carpet, rebuke,
            rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw,
            dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl
           out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, lambaste, lambast]