29 January 2015

lambast

[lam-beyst, -bast]

verb (used with object), lambasted, lambasting. Informal.
1. to beat or whip severely.
2. to reprimand or berate harshly; censure; excoriate.

Also, lambast.

Origin
1630-1640; apparently lam1+ baste3

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Examples from the web for lambast
– Health experts regularly lambast them for peddling food that makes people fat.
– He owns television stations and newspapers that trumpet his causes and lambast his rivals.

Anagram

lab mats
lamb sat
bat slam

Today’s aphorism

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

– Alice Walker

On this day

29 January 1979 – 16 year old, Brenda Spencer shoots two men dead and wounds nine children at the Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego. She allegedly claimed that she did it because it was a Monday and she didn’t like Mondays. She was sentenced to 25 years jail. The Boomtown Rats released a song about the incident, entitled ‘I Don’t Like Mondays‘.