upside the head

“People aren’t being hit upside the head with the size of the problem, because they throw out a quarter sandwich here and a couple eggs there, not everything in their fridge. Maybe if groceries keep getting more expensive, they’ll finally make the connection.”

Somebody else to lean on, to carry the load and to hit me upside the head when I need to be hit upside the head.

The business of the NBA had just smacked him directly upside the head, a team showing little hesitation to send him out the door only to be forced into welcoming him back because of a failed physical by Williams.

You can see when it happens to and for Linda, Bridget Christie’s heroine in “The Change,” because it slaps her upside the head.

Music led him to culturally cross over, but the conflict within his racial identity was established after Gran Mimi slapped him upside the head and told him “You are not Creole!”