"Knock you into Next Week"
Posted by R. Berg on February 19, 2003
In Reply to: Origin of "Knock you into Next Week" posted by ESC on February 18, 2003
: : : It is an old expression and I would be curious
: : : to know where it
comes from.
: : : Does anybody know?
: : : The usage:
: : : He made her
angry and she said, "If you don't
: : : do what I say I will knock you into
next week!"
: : I think it comes from the implication that you'll hit someone so hard as to render them unconscious until some time next week.
: It's figurative. Along the lines of something Muhammad Ali (I think) said: I'm going to hit you so hard your relatives back in Africa will feel it.
Sometimes heard in the form "knock you into the middle of next week."
- "Knock you into Next Week" DemiWing 02/19/03
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