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What might be read as warning to the mob?
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riot act
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Riot Act is the seventh studio album by American rock band Pearl Jam , released on November 12, 2002 through Epic Records . Following a full-scale tour in support of its previous album, Binaural (2000), Pearl Jam took a year-long break. The band then reconvened ...
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n. a vigorous reprimand; "I read him the riot act" a former English law requiring mobs to disperse after a magistrate reads the law to them
Usage examples of riot act.
He read the riot act in all but barracks language in a voice so loud even I heard him, and my office is at the end of the corridor from the reception room.
The day Kit had hunted him down and read him the riot act about staying away from Kit’.
The magistrates make every concession and try every expedient, the mayor reading the riot act five or six times.
The day Kit had hunted him down and read him the riot act about staying away from Kit's granddaughter, Skeeter would've welcomed a double-gate day.
He had to take her statement, read her the riot act about shooting at people, and leave.
The riot act was every bit as unpleasant as he hac foreseen it would be, but somehow he managed to liv~ through itmostly by bearing in mind as firmly as pos sible that he had it coming.