The expression, "whack upside the head" - WTH?

[Anonymous]

I prefer "smack you upside the head"

[Anonymous]

MIL is from the midwest. She uses that term as well as "I will have your child saluting"--which to her means she will hit or physically harm them until they do what she wants. She once attempted to whack DS upside the head. She is NEVER left alone with my children EVER.

[Anonymous]

My dictionary lists it as a preposition.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My dictionary lists it as a preposition.

What is your source? It is a noun, not a preposition.

From mydictionary.com:

Noun

1.the highest or uppermost side of anything; "put your books on top of the desk", "only the top side of the box was painted" [syn: upper side, top side, top ]
Source: WordNet 3.0

Noun

1.The upper side; the part that is uppermost.



http://mydictionary.myresources.com/browse/upside

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MIL is from the midwest. She uses that term as well as "I will have your child saluting"--which to her means she will hit or physically harm them until they do what she wants. She once attempted to whack DS upside the head. She is NEVER left alone with my children EVER.

Reminds me of the bullies who say "I bought you into this world and I can take you out of it". Ugh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My dictionary lists it as a preposition.

What is your source? It is a noun, not a preposition.

From mydictionary.com:

Noun

1.the highest or uppermost side of anything; "put your books on top of the desk", "only the top side of the box was painted" [syn: upper side, top side, top ]
Source: WordNet 3.0

Noun

1.The upper side; the part that is uppermost.



http://mydictionary.myresources.com/browse/upside

also a preposition:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/upside


http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/upside

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My dictionary lists it as a preposition.

What is your source? It is a noun, not a preposition.

From mydictionary.com:

Noun

1.the highest or uppermost side of anything; "put your books on top of the desk", "only the top side of the box was painted" [syn: upper side, top side, top ]
Source: WordNet 3.0

Noun

1.The upper side; the part that is uppermost.



http://mydictionary.myresources.com/browse/upside

also a preposition:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/upside


http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/upside

OP here - I stand corrected. Still, an awful expression.

I think it's the casual violence of its tone that I object to.

[Anonymous]

From the midwest and have heard and used the phrase my whole life. Never as a serious threat or directed at a child. More as a joking tone, "DH, I swear if you keep leaving your smelly gym socks laying in the bathroom I'm gonna whack you upside the head."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems trashy to me.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzz

You must be the life of the party.

So true! DCUM is obsessed with being classy and not trashy.

[Anonymous]

Being trashy is fun sometimes!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Being trashy is fun sometimes!

Correction. Being trashy is fun most of the time. I behave, because it's necessary, not because I enjoy it.

[Anonymous]

"Just when you think you've gotten all you can out of it, you get knocked upside the head," Pitt (at The Mexican premiere in Westwood, Californnia) once said of his love for Aniston. "It's good fun. We still have that friendship. We still have a good laugh."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From the midwest and have heard and used the phrase my whole life. Never as a serious threat or directed at a child. More as a joking tone, "DH, I swear if you keep leaving your smelly gym socks laying in the bathroom I'm gonna whack you upside the head."

I threaten my child with this all the time. Given the fact that it causes him to laugh and stick his tongue out at me, I don't think he's too traumatized. He knows I'd never hit him for real. I didn't start until he was clearly old enough to get that it was a joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MIL is from the midwest. She uses that term as well as "I will have your child saluting"--which to her means she will hit or physically harm them until they do what she wants. She once attempted to whack DS upside the head. She is NEVER left alone with my children EVER.

And you married her spawn?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pimp lingo.

A Bunch of churchgoing Iowa farmers begs to differ.