Idiom
beat someone round the ears
Meaning
To beat (a person) with blows about the head.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The angry man threatened to beat him round the ears.”
“If you keep making such foolish mistakes, the boss will surely beat you round the ears.”
“The old sailor swore that if the boy touched his equipment again, he would beat him round the ears for his insolence.”
Examples
simple
“The angry man threatened to beat him round the ears.”
contextual
“If you keep making such foolish mistakes, the boss will surely beat you round the ears.”
complex
“The old sailor swore that if the boy touched his equipment again, he would beat him round the ears for his insolence.”
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