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English English English - Japanese English - Korean English - Spanish Japanese - English Spanish - English English English - Japanese English - Korean English - Spanish Japanese - English Spanish - English English 日本語 Español latino 한국어 knock some sense into somebody/into somebody’s head From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishknock some sense into somebody/into somebody’s headknock some sense into somebody/into somebody’s headinformalSENSIBLE to make someone learn to behave in a more sensible way  The struggle to build up her own business had knocked some sense into her. → knockExamples from the Corpusknock some sense into somebody/into somebody’s head• Maybe getting arrested will knock some sense into him. Exercises Exercises

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