upside the head
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You can see when it happens to and for Linda, Bridget Christie’s heroine in “The Change,” because it slaps her upside the head.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2024
“This is the last slap upside the head we’re going to get when it might still matter,” said Bill McKibben, a longtime climate activist.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2023
“It’s cumulative — it’s got to hit you upside the head more than once before you conclude that there’s just no point in doing this.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 3, 2022
Or maybe a boomerang, one that doesn’t slide gently back into your waiting grasp so much as smack you upside the head, leaving you feeling bruised, confused, and possibly stricken with amnesia.
From Slate ● Dec. 28, 2020
Someone else happed him upside the head and everyone chuckled, but Magdalys could hear the nervousness creeping around the edges of their laughter.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
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