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Verb: take to task
  1. Censure severely or angrily
    - call on the carpet [US], rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast, ream [N. Amer]

Derived forms: taking to task, took to task, taken to task, takes to task

Type of: criticise [Brit], criticize, knock, pick apart

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take the piss
take the road
take the stage
take the stand
take the veil
take time by the forelock
take time off
take to
take to be
take to heart
take to task
take to the woods
take turns
take up
take up arms
take water
takeaway
take-away
takedown
take-home
take-home pay