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Examples
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But Pip had had some angry tickings-off from his father and two or three canings, and he and Bets were always afraid of Mr. Goon coming to complain.
Separate Douglas Light 2010
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There have been other lofty tickings-off: How could the Irish be so ungrateful, given what Europe had done for them?
Irish Miracle 2008
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Miss Parker was called in and she too said that as far as she knew Ellen had not been in any trouble in any class, except for mild tickings-off for not doing work up to standard.
The Second Form at Malory Towers Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1970
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As a matter of fact, once she had started blaming him for things, she found that there were a number of other matters she could hold against him; and found, too, her tongue, so that the schoolteacher's humble apartment resounded regularly to the kinds of tickings-off he was too much of a mouse to hand out to his pupils.
The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967
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