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tell
(redirected from tell off)

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It seems like a good idea at the time, but that might have something to do with all the vodka Alex drank: he jumps into his mother's car, intending to go tell off his father for leaving the family, and promptly crashes it.
Print journalism, save for a few papers like The Washington Post and The New York Times, is run by corporate hacks too scared to tell off Wall Street, eagerly jettisoning editorial personnel and shrinking news holes in favor of outrageous profits.
Hodges does some key investigating on his own, Childers does the old Jack Nicholson blow-up on the stand, witnesses are pressured into lying, ``surprise'' testimony you knew was coming an hour earlier pops up at a climactic moment, and the few good men tell off the clueless desk jockeys but good.
 
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