"give someone a bloody nose" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-give someone a bloody nose.ogg [Australia] Forms: gives someone a bloody nose [present, singular, third-person], giving someone a bloody nose [participle, present], gave someone a bloody nose [past], given someone a bloody nose [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|give<,,gave,given> someone a bloody nose}} give someone a bloody nose (third-person singular simple present gives someone a bloody nose, present participle giving someone a bloody nose, simple past gave someone a bloody nose, past participle given someone a bloody nose)
  1. (idiomatic) To defeat or frustrate someone, but without doing any permanent damage. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-give_someone_a_bloody_nose-en-verb-zkJfiKJB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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