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Frank and severe criticism, censure, as in Chuck was furious and gave him a piece of his mind . The word piece here is used in the sense of “portion,” but the portion of the mind alluded to always has a negative opinion. [Second half of 1500s]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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