take someone to the woodshed informal

"If any of my students had done that, I would have taken them to the woodshed," he said.

I think his mother would take him to the woodshed."

That's not what he said last month, so they took him to the woodshed and threatened to move all their back to the Rethuglicans.

Don't let the hindsight of this new order affect you: they took Argentina to the woodshed.

In a famous quote, they told the media that the president had "taken David to the woodshed" to express his anger.

Taking people to the woodshed for purposes of political theater is a time-honored bipartisan tradition.

The Trojans took them to the woodshed 35-3 and left the impression with 10 more regular-season games to go that they are without peer.

Taking yourself to the woodshed is no fun, which is probably why it is not a universal practice in public life.

She took him to the woodshed.

"You're not going to get Andy to tell you he took Karl to the woodshed," a senior Republican official said.

“It struck me that they were taking him to the woodshed,” Mr. Swallen said.

“My members are driving me, and if they think I’m not doing everything I can to change this law, they’ll take me to the woodshed.”

"Those credits that have been struggling have been taken out to the woodshed, and if they default, it won't affect the overall rate."

I could understand calling him in and taking him to the woodshed for a day, but — from what I saw — it wasn’t actionable.

“They took us to the woodshed,” Vanderbilt coach Kevin Stallings said of that loss.

White has taken him to the woodshed for showboating in the past, even moving him up a weight class in a bid to challenge him.

If you don't have that on paper, you better get it there fast, so that when his book is published we can take him to the woodshed.

Slate’s Matt Yglesias also took American to the woodshed, albeit more thoughtfully than Shteyngart did.

So it comes as no surprise that the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial page today takes Romney to the woodshed for supporting an individual mandate.

I, too, remembered Turner as the goof who tried to manage his own baseball team, until wise old Bowie Kuhn took him to the woodshed.

He won't have to step between verbal combatants, as he has had to in the past, or figuratively take them to the woodshed and paddle their bottoms.

CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports that fiscal conservatives took him to the woodshed.

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Closing the assembly plants without the parts factories, he added, "is a mild sort of slap on the wrist - G.M. hasn't been taken out to the woodshed yet."

Berry does have a “Strategic Plan for Retirement Service” that he developed after the House federal workforce subcommittee took OPM to the woodshed in November.