beat sb over the head
Frequency: 5.73.6 per million words
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Examples (10)
- He had been beaten over the head with a rock.
- The witness saw the assailant beat the victim over the head with a heavy stick.
- My boss keeps beating me over the head with the importance of quarterly reports.
- Stop beating yourself over the head for that one small mistake; it's time to move on.
- The security footage showed the robber threatening to beat the clerk over the head.
- Critics say the movie beats the audience over the head with its unsubtle moral message.
- The lawyer argued that his client was so disoriented he couldn't remember being beaten over the head.
- I feel like I'm constantly beating my kids over the head about cleaning their rooms.
- The main character in the novel was tragically beaten over the head and left for dead.
- You don't need to beat him over the head with the facts; he already knows he was wrong.