Dic: You got an earful

• I bet Sue gave you an earful when you got home. 
• Now she has used that slogan as the title for her ribald new comic memoir, in which gays are her heroes and allies and Bush Republicans get an earful. 
• Congress got an earful of facts and statistics recently when educators and business leaders told members that teachers need to hook kids on math and science in elementary school to keep them interested later on.

1. N-SING : a N | If you say that you got an earful, you mean that someone spoke angrily to you for quite an long time.[INFORMAL] 
2. earful: n. Informal. | (1) something heard or overheard | (2) a rebuke or scolding, esp a lengthy or severe one.

... Cobuild, Collins, http://www.thefreedictionary.com/earful