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knuckle sandwich
knuckle sandwich
A punch in the mouth. If you keep mocking me, you're going to get a knuckle sandwich!
*knuckle sandwich
Inf. a punch. (*Typically: ask for ~; get ~; give someone ~; want ~.) A: Nyah! Your mother smokes cigars! B: You want a knuckle sandwich?
knuckle sandwich
n. a blow struck in the teeth or mouth. How would you like a knuckle sandwich?
knuckle sandwich
A punch in the mouth. Associated with urban street toughs, the phrase was common in “Dead End” and “Bowery Boys” movies where the threat of being served a meal of someone's fist was all part of the characters' bravado.