And any shenanigans or backtalk that was observed was reported to their parents.
From the bits.blogs.nytimes.com
Count it, tell them to play to the whistle and any more backtalk gets them in the book.
From the guardian.co.uk
If asked to do something, they did it, without question or backtalk.
From the chron.com
Backtalk, who was last in the Derby, finished second in that race.
From the courier-journal.com
Backtalk, the favorite at just more than 7-2, was eighth.
From the courier-journal.com
Backtalk notwithstanding, Adam and Cynthia are headed for an only moderately less garish version of the boss'life.
From the denverpost.com
The one universal, according to patrollers from several ski areas, is that backtalk and surliness ensures a call to the cops.
From the denverpost.com
Just about everyone who has raised a teenager has been exasperated by adolescent backtalk and incensed by challenges to parental authority.
From the cnn.com
However, the crackling backtalk between Lynne Perrie and Freddie Fletcher as Billy's mum and elder brother is just as funny, just as heartbreaking.
From the guardian.co.uk
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Verbal impudence or argumentative discourse, given in response; To respond in an aggresively disputatious, often sarcastic or outright insolent manner