down the banks

1. (slang, dated, Ireland, Liverpool) A severe criticism, scolding, reprimand, or punishment.

   Independent woters ain't the chalk—and the K. Ns. has done it!— They've spiled the trade. Sam's done it—Amerikins has done it! Take 'em up for interfeerin' with other people's bisness. Give 'em down the banks; send em up ninety days; give em that,"—and he struck straight out at an imaginary head, with a force that sent him with a lurch across the sidewalk, up against the side of the buildings.

   Eş anlamlılar: bollocking, dressing down, handbagging, tongue lashing, animadversion, criticism, criticization, critique, dressing-down, handbagging

Biçimler: down-the-banks

1. (slang, obsolete, New York) In prison.

   Mr. Heberton Fitzjames was (and, if he has not gone 'down the banks,' is) a gentleman such as we frequently see at the watering-places; a leader of the select parties there congregated. […] I became acquainted with Fitzjames in my way of making new friends. I had professional engagements with him, and from the name of 'the plaintiff,' I concluded it grew out of a sporting debt. Ah, Heberton, in that you were nearly gone 'down the banks!'

Biçimler: down-the-banks