personal correction

personal correction
   flogging
   As practised in 19th-century English boarding schools by even so reputedly enlightened a pedagogue as Thomas Arnold:
    [Dr Arnold] was particularly disgusted by the view that 'personal correction', as he phrased it, was an insult or degradation to the boy on whom it was inflicted. (Strachey, 1918)

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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