多指受到严厉批评或处罚（非肉体的）。原指肉刑的一种形式to be severely criticized or punished; to suffer a beating from wooden boards

• 发生“窝里斗”的地方，固然该挨板子，但有关领导也该挨板子。

  Those who engage in infighting should naturally be severely punished, but their superiors should be punished too.

• 别人都掺了水，只有我们实打实地来，那最后挨板子的还不是我们？

  Everyone else is cheating to make themselves look better; we are the only ones doing honest work. In the end it is us who will suffer the consequences.