Spanish idioms
What does “Cantar las cuarenta” mean?
Cantar las cuarenta
Word for word
To sing the forty
What it really means
To give someone a stern telling-off, saying every home truth at once. The one doing the singing is the one who had been holding the complaint in.
How we say it in English
To read someone the riot act
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