👮🏻👊 Punishment 👊👮🏻♀
COLLOCATIONS
adjectives
■ harsh/ severe/ light/ just/ fitting (=appropriate and right): Death would be a just punishment.
■ physical punishment
■ corporal punishment (=when someone punishes a child by hitting them) Corporal punishment is banned in state schools.
■ capital punishment (=death as a punishment for a crime)
■ the maximum punishment
verbs
■ give somebody a punishment
■ hand out punishments (=give people punishments) The courts are handing out harsher punishments to reckless drivers.
■ impose/mete out a punishmentformal (=give someone a punishment)
■ receive a punishment
■ escape/avoid punishment
■ carry a punishment (=used when saying what the punishment for something is): The offence carries a punishment of up to 10 years in prison.
■ inflict a punishment (on somebody)(=punish someone, especially physically)
PHRASES
■ the punishment should fit the crime
THESAURUS
⚔️ punishment
⚔️ sentence: a punishment given by a judge in a court
⚔️ fine: an amount of money that you must pay as a punishment
⚔️ penalty: a general word for a punishment given to someone who has broken a law, rule, or agreement
⚔️ the death penalty (also capital punishment) the system in which people are killed as a punishment for crimes
⚔️ community service: unpaid work helping other people that someone does as punishment for a crime
⚔️ corporal punishment
IDIOMS
🔅Get a Slap On The Wrist » (a slight punishment...)
🔅Give Someone A Slap On The Wrist (Slap Someone's Wrist ) » (give that person a mild punishment for what they did wrong...)
🔅Ball And Chain » (one's punishment; the burden that one must carry...)
🔅Facing The Music » (receiving a punishment for what one has done...)
🔅Get A Tongue Lashing » (was yelled at by someone, as a punishment...)
🔅Get Off Easy/ Lightly » (one did something wrong but did not receive a big punishment...)
🔅Get Off/ Go Scot Free » (receive no punishment; one did something bad but was not punished...)
🔅Get What's Coming To One » (one has acted badly and deserves some kind of punishment...)
🔅Or Else » (or there will be a punishment...)
🔅Slap Someone's Wrist » (push one by slapping one's hand; a very light punishment...)
#topic #vocabulary
#collocations #punishment
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COLLOCATIONS
adjectives
■ harsh/ severe/ light/ just/ fitting (=appropriate and right): Death would be a just punishment.
■ physical punishment
■ corporal punishment (=when someone punishes a child by hitting them) Corporal punishment is banned in state schools.
■ capital punishment (=death as a punishment for a crime)
■ the maximum punishment
verbs
■ give somebody a punishment
■ hand out punishments (=give people punishments) The courts are handing out harsher punishments to reckless drivers.
■ impose/mete out a punishmentformal (=give someone a punishment)
■ receive a punishment
■ escape/avoid punishment
■ carry a punishment (=used when saying what the punishment for something is): The offence carries a punishment of up to 10 years in prison.
■ inflict a punishment (on somebody)(=punish someone, especially physically)
PHRASES
■ the punishment should fit the crime
THESAURUS
⚔️ punishment
⚔️ sentence: a punishment given by a judge in a court
⚔️ fine: an amount of money that you must pay as a punishment
⚔️ penalty: a general word for a punishment given to someone who has broken a law, rule, or agreement
⚔️ the death penalty (also capital punishment) the system in which people are killed as a punishment for crimes
⚔️ community service: unpaid work helping other people that someone does as punishment for a crime
⚔️ corporal punishment
IDIOMS
🔅Get a Slap On The Wrist » (a slight punishment...)
🔅Give Someone A Slap On The Wrist (Slap Someone's Wrist ) » (give that person a mild punishment for what they did wrong...)
🔅Ball And Chain » (one's punishment; the burden that one must carry...)
🔅Facing The Music » (receiving a punishment for what one has done...)
🔅Get A Tongue Lashing » (was yelled at by someone, as a punishment...)
🔅Get Off Easy/ Lightly » (one did something wrong but did not receive a big punishment...)
🔅Get Off/ Go Scot Free » (receive no punishment; one did something bad but was not punished...)
🔅Get What's Coming To One » (one has acted badly and deserves some kind of punishment...)
🔅Or Else » (or there will be a punishment...)
🔅Slap Someone's Wrist » (push one by slapping one's hand; a very light punishment...)
#topic #vocabulary
#collocations #punishment
@sirjimmy