Usually means: Criticize or reprimand someone severely.
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  1. haul someone over the coals: Merriam-Webster
  2. haul someone over the coals: Collins English Dictionary
  3. haul someone over the coals: Wiktionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (haul someone over the coals)

verb:  (chiefly UK, idiomatic) To express anger with someone in no uncertain terms when they do something wrong.

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