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Read the Riot Act

This occurs after you make the first date after meeting online through social media. Everything has been going great until you meet in person and then your date “reads the riot act” firmly setting out their terms for how the dating and further relationship should progress.
Phil met Meghan on their first date only to be read the riot act, stating that she did not kiss on the first date, what days of week she was available, how he was to dress when they dated, the types of events she expected him to attend, etc.
Read the Riot Act by Leap Cruncher December 28, 2021

read-a-book-itis 

(n.) a serious disease where inflamation occurs in certain parts of the brain which causes people to read books or have the idea.
Due to a professor's teachings, I have become infected with read-a-book-itis
read-a-book-itis by anonymous_two November 5, 2008

Read it to you

When somebody shows you up.....humiliates you.......makes you look dumb
That lawyer really read it to you, too bad you lost the case!
Read it to you by THE GOOD WORD January 7, 2017

Read a book 

1. A classic method to gain knowledge or to kill time.
2. A phrase pseudo-intellectuals use to make opponent's arguments invalid.
1. Old person: "I have too much of free time. I'll better read a book."

2. Joe: "Earth is round."

Some Dork: "OMG U R SO STUPID! ITS F-L-A-T!!! READ A BOOK!"
Read a book by ThuckFis9 December 7, 2017

read up on it 

What you may literally hafta do if you wanna learn Chinese --- some of their text is arranged in a vertical column that hasta be scanned from the bottom to the top in order to decipher it. Makes ya wonder how the Chinese don't get sore necks from all dat bobble-headed noddin' they do whenever they sit down to read da mornin' paper.
Learning how to make sense of all that fancy vertical signage in Chinatown is fairly simple --- just read up on it.
read up on it by QuacksO May 9, 2018