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
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!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
“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
“Kevin” is like that bottle; it will make us see the horror in what we’ve been trained to see as harmless, even if it has to smack us upside the head.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2021
They pulled off their knitted skullcaps and slapped one another upside the head with them.
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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