Give vehement warning and retaliate to tackle insanely hot tirade (4,3,4,3)
I believe the answer is:
read the riot act
'give vehement warning' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.
'retaliate to tackle insanely hot tirade' is the wordplay.
'retaliate' becomes 'react' (I've seen this before).
'to tackle' means one lot of letters goes inside another (tackle can mean to take hold of).
'insanely' is an anagram indicator.
'hot'+'tirade'='hottirade'
'hottirade' is an anagram of 'adtheriot'.
'react' going around 'adtheriot' is 'READ THE RIOT ACT'.
'and' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for read the riot act that I've seen before include "severe warning" , "Wag one's finger" .)