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The phrase "telling him off" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when you are scolding or reprimanding someone for something they have done. For example, "I told my son off for not doing his homework."
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The woman kept telling him off, and she'd drawn a crowd.
Robert is bilingual and for the last couple of months I have been telling him off in French.
"The last time was three days ago when I got angry with a guy on the bus and started telling him off".
Instead of telling him off, Cooper offered him the biggest job on the station: the breakfast show, currently the home of Chris Moyles.
Glass is the goodie, because he loves his son (who is half-Pawnee) in a gruff, manly way that involves telling him off a lot.
"We thought instead of telling him off, that we would tell him something that he could really use: that God loves him and that Christ died for him," she said.
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As Jerry Lee goes into a tailspin, Frank quickly becomes his brother's keeper, bathing him and buying him beer and telling him off-the-cuff fairy tales to dispel thoughts of suicide.
I tell him off because I love him.
"I told him off and left," he said.
I told him off and started handing out tampons.
I have to tell him off! "I think it's a nice change for him though.
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