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131read|er — «REE duhr», noun. 1. a person who reads: »a good reader, a light reader. 2. a book for learning and practicing reading. 3. a person employed to read manuscripts and estimate their fitness for publication: »The ideal publisher s reader should have …
132read (somebody) the Riot Act — ˌread (sb) the ˈRiot Act idiom (BrE) to tell sb with force that they must not do sth From an Act of Parliament passed in 1715 to prevent riots. It made it illegal for a group of twelve or more people to refuse to split up if they were ordered to… …
