riot act
- n a vigorous reprimand
- n a former English law requiring mobs to disperse after a magistrate reads the law to them
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- LETTER: Government in hands of criminals
Whenever we elect a congressional representative to office, they immediately divert from their mission of representing the people who elected them, to representing the majority party. Nobody can figure this out. When Roland Burris took office, Dick Durbin read him the riot act that his job was to vote with the party, that otherwise, he would be a one-term senator.
July 7, 2013 - Evansville Courier & Press