phrase

• Hit someone very hard.

  More example sentences

  • ‘In fact, I scared one of them half to death when I walked through the door; she tried to knock my block off with a mop as she thought I was an intruder!’
  • ‘I'd like to see it myself, except that someone would probably recognize me and try to knock my block off.’
  • ‘I get home from school a few days later and my mother is looking like she wants to knock my block off.’
  • ‘The young man turned to look at me, and for a second there, I thought he was going to knock my block off.’
  • ‘He told Bellamy he would knock his block off if he ever set foot back in Newcastle.’
  • ‘The first time we met I thought he was going to knock my block off because I'd called him Bart instead of Bartholomew.’
  • ‘If I were that age - I'd knock his block off if I were his ‘so-called’ teammate.’

  Synonyms

  strike, slap, smack, cuff, punch, beat, thrash, thump, batter, belabour, drub, hook, pound, smash, slam, welt, pummel, hammer, bang, knock, swat, whip, flog, cane, sucker-punch, rain blows on, give someone a beating, give someone a drubbing, give someone a good beating, give someone a good drubbing, box someone's ears