beat sb over the head

Frequency: 5.73.6 per million words

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.