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🇺🇸 English Expressions: Knock It Off 🙅♂️ 🚫
Hey everyone! 👋
Today’s expression is “knock it off.” ✋
👉 It means stop doing something annoying, irritating, or inappropriate.
You use it when you want someone to cut it out immediately.
Origin:
This comes from American slang in the early 20th century, literally meaning “stop hitting” or “stop interfering.” Over time, it became a general way to tell someone to stop what they’re doing. 💥
Examples:
• Hey, knock it off! I can’t concentrate with all that noise. 😤
• Knock it off, you two — stop teasing each other! 😅
• The kids were fighting, so the teacher said, “Knock it off!” 🏫
Figurative daily-life examples:
• He kept texting me useless links — I told him to knock it off. 📱
• That joke is getting old; knock it off! 😂
• Stop complaining about the small stuff — just knock it off. 🙃
Now it’s your turn! 💬
Drop your own sentence using “knock it off” below 👇
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🇺🇸 English Expressions: Knock It Off 🙅♂️ 🚫
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