block

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block

1. slang One's head. He said he'd knock my block off if I kept insulting his mother. You'd better watch out. She could take your block off with that right hook of hers.
2. slang A fool or dolt; a very stupid person. Oh, be quiet, you old block. No one cares what you think.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

block

1. n. the head. Try to get this stuff through your block before the test.
2. n. the auction block. The painting went on the block and sold for nearly fifty-three million dollars.
3. n. a stupid person. (Possibly a back formation on blockhead.) You silly block! Get out of the way.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • a chip off the old block
  • a new kid on the block
  • a stumbling block
  • a/the new kid on the block
  • around the block
  • be a chip off the old block
  • be off the (starting) blocks
  • be out of the blocks
  • been around (the block)
  • been around the block
  • block
  • block in
  • block in some place
  • block off
  • block on
  • block on (something)
  • block out
  • block up
  • blockbuster
  • blocked
  • blockhead
  • blocking and tackling
  • chip off the old block
  • chip off the old block, a
  • chock-a-block, to be
  • cock block
  • cock-blocking
  • do (one's) block
  • gapers' block
  • go on the block
  • have been around the block
  • have been around the block a few times
  • I'll knock your block/head off!
  • knock (one's) block off
  • knock (one's) head off
  • knock block off
  • knock someone’s block off
  • knock someone's block off
  • lay (one's) head on the block
  • lay (one's) neck on the block
  • mental block
  • new kid on the block
  • off the (starting) blocks
  • off the blocks
  • on the block
  • on the chopping block
  • out (of) the (starting) blocks
  • out of the blocks
  • put (one's) head on the block
  • put (one's) neck on the block
  • put (something) on the block
  • put head on the block
  • put on the block
  • put the blocks on
  • put the blocks on (something)
  • put your head on the block
  • put/lay your head/neck on the block
  • storm out of the blocks
  • stumbling block
  • stumbling block, a
  • the block is hot
  • the new kid on the block
  • writer's block
References in classic literature
"This block is very low, is there no other to be had?"
Twenty Years After
I can not conceive how those immense blocks of stone were ever hauled from the quarries, or how they were ever raised to the dizzy heights they occupy in the temples.
The Innocents Abroad
What you're after, why you left the block house, why you given me that there chart, I don't know, now, do I?
Treasure Island
"Those blocks which you are trampling under foot, like worthless stones, contain gold-ore of great purity."
Five Weeks in a Balloon
A block distant a hundred of our comrades had been holding a building.
The Iron Heel
Half a block on, passing the Forum Cafe, he stopped suddenly.
The Valley of the Moon
There, between two waters clear as crystal, through the open panels we were allowed to contemplate the beautiful bushes of brilliant coral and large blocks of rock clothed with a splendid fur of green variety of sites and landscapes along these sandbanks and algae and fuci.
20000 Leagues Under The Sea
One by one the masters mounted the rostrum beside the slave block upon which stood their chattels.
Thuvia Maid of Mars
But he, strong man and hearty, used to such work, weary with the hard day and with a pleasant picture of the bright little flat waiting him a dozen blocks away when the job was done, spoke cheerfully, confidently, saying that he'd have them out in a jiffy, as he stooped and crawled under the car on hands and knees.
Jerry of the Islands
On open ground, do not try to block the enemy's way.
Art of War
A gigantic block was held back by each of his extended arms.
The Man in the Iron Mask
"I've identified the big block to the left," he observed, and pointed with his fork at a square formed by several rows of lights.
The Voyage Out
In the first place, the enormous cutting tackles, among other ponderous things comprising a cluster of blocks generally painted green, and which no single man can possibly lift --this vast bunch of grapes was swayed up to the main-top and firmly lashed to the lower mast-head, the strongest point anywhere above a ship's deck.
Moby Dick I LXVII
One instant all was quiet and stability--the next, and the world rocked, the tortured sides of the narrow passageway split and crumbled, great blocks of granite, dislodged from the ceiling, tumbled into the narrow way, choking it, and the walls bent inward upon the wreckage.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
Ponta lashed out, right and left, savagely as ever, and though Joe blocked the blows, such was the force of them that he was knocked backward several steps.
The Game