I'll probably get a tongue lashing.

Yeah,I hope she recovers from that tongue-lashing.

Probably didn't save you from a brutal tongue-lashing, though, huh?

She'd rather tongue lash a problem than step up and handle it.

She'd rather tongue lash a problem than step up and handle it.

Constructive criticism is more easily accepted than tongue-lashing, especially when such criticism is accompanied by concrete gestures of cooperation.

- He is not listening to Jesus... ...because if he was, oh, Jesus would give him a tongue-lashing.

I decided to give him a good tongue-lashing because he'd shattered the mother-of-pearl buttons on my best waistcoat.