Brewer's: Roasting One

To give one a roasting. To banter, him, to expose him to sharp words. Shakespeare, in Hamlet, speaks of roasting “in wrath and fire.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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