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Brewer's: Haul over the Coals
Take to task. Jamieson thinks it refers to the ordeal by fire, a suggestion which is favoured by the French corresponding phrase, mettre sur la sellette (to put on the culprit's stool).
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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