We must all bow to you, and try to get a favorable word, must we? This man shall have a leg up, and this man shall have a dressing down! — A. Conan Doyle, The Lost World, 1912.
If someone gives you a dressing-down, they speak angrily to you because you have done something bad or foolish. = telling off. an occasion when you talk angrily to someone because they have done something wrong give sb/get a dressing-down
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"