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The phrase "be told off" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to receive a scolding or reprimand from someone in authority. Example: After breaking the school rules, the students were told off by their teacher in front of the entire class.
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I would usually be told off for chatting to the customers about their day.
No one wants to be told off by their mother and Gabriel Jesus is no different.
They're still not pleased, but I'm too old now to be told off".
Everybody's happy, no one's had to be told off or laws changed".
They had to be told off for booing the Canucks, however: rather unOlympic behaviour, the umpire suggested.
"I know I am going to be told off for for ever," he adds ruefully, contemplating the next day's papers.
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I only remember being told off once.
We have been told off for talking!
Perhaps he had been told off?
Now they're being told off for... feeding monkeys.
"I was told off by my mum," Youngs admits.
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