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riot act(noun)

a vigorous reprimand

"I read him the riot act"

Riot Act(noun)

a former English law requiring mobs to disperse after a magistrate reads the law to them

an often public or formal expression of disapproval

at a specially called meeting, he read the riot act to his staff for their poor handling of the crisis

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