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knock someone's block off
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Idioms and Phrases
Beat up someone, as in If he doesn't leave at once, I'll knock his block off . This hyperbolic term employs block in the sense of “head,†a usage dating from the 1600s. The idiom, however, dates only from about 1900. Also see beat the living daylights out of .Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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