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upside the head
Idioms and Phrases
Against the side of someone's head, as in With those nightsticks the police are known for knocking suspects upside the head . [ Slang ; second half of 1900s]Example Sentences
The business of the NBA had just smacked him directly upside the head, a team showing little hesitation to send him out the door only to be forced into welcoming him back because of a failed physical by Williams.
You can see when it happens to and for Linda, Bridget Christie’s heroine in “The Change,” because it slaps her upside the head.
Music led him to culturally cross over, but the conflict within his racial identity was established after Gran Mimi slapped him upside the head and told him “You are not Creole!”
“All I wanted was someone that will smack this motherf— upside the head a couple of times just to let him know to keep his f— mouth shut,” Munoz told an inmate in the Los Angeles County jail, according to court records.
“I think it’s the agreement that you make with the reader, that if I put it in the novel, there’s a reason for it to be there, and I trust you. I don’t have to knock you upside the head to say, ‘Look!
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