Re: "Smack [someone] upside the head"

In this context, at least as I understand the phrase, "upside" doesn't
mean the same as "on top of".  I construe it as denoting an upward
strike to the side of the head.


On 5/23/07, Sai Emrys <sai@...> wrote:
> Whence comes this unusual grammar?
>
> It seems to tolerate more-or-less any other term for 'head' (eg I
> recently saw it w/ 'noodle')... but not very much (any?) leeway in the
> verb, anatomy, or direction.
>
> But generally, [verb] [locative] [def. article] requires a locative
> phrase (e.g. "on top of"); why is it dropped here?
>
> - Sai
>

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