knock on the head

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knock something on the head (British, informal)

to stop doing something. 'Do you still play football?' 'No, I knocked that on the head a while ago.'

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You see, I was right on the outside of the fighting and I got a knock on the head with the butt-end of a spear, and was a bit silly for a moment, and a great chap, who'd seen me near Trent and guessed I was somebody, picked me up as though I'd been a baby and carried me off. A Millionaire of Yesterday by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context A knock on the head would be the smallest reward to him who should take such a liberty with a Christian sentinel; but there goes the Teton after his horses as if he thought two legs as good as four in such a race The Prairie by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context A man on horseback by riding round and round in a circle, or rather in a spire, so as to approach closer each time, may knock on the head as many as he pleases. The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context More results

References in classic literature

You see, I was right on the outside of the fighting and I got a knock on the head with the butt-end of a spear, and was a bit silly for a moment, and a great chap, who'd seen me near Trent and guessed I was somebody, picked me up as though I'd been a baby and carried me off.

A Millionaire of Yesterday by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context

A knock on the head would be the smallest reward to him who should take such a liberty with a Christian sentinel; but there goes the Teton after his horses as if he thought two legs as good as four in such a race

The Prairie by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context

A man on horseback by riding round and round in a circle, or rather in a spire, so as to approach closer each time, may knock on the head as many as he pleases.

The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context

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