slap somebody round the face.

[JACEK1]

Hello everybody!

Although I am not a believer in physical abuse, I would like to ask you what "woman on the dance floor slapped you round the face" in the below-mentioned sentence means.

Did he indeed?! Well, after that woman on the dance floor slapped you round the face and you left... the judges gave out another award.

I know what "to slap someone in/across the face" means. Does "to slap someone round the face" have similar meaning?

Thank you.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Re: sleep somebody round the faace

That should be 'round the face, with an apostrophe, because it's a contraction of around.

'Round is colloquial in that sentence, as upside would also be.

 

[Rover_KE]

Re: sleep somebody round the faace

I have edited your thread title. Please check what you have written before posting it.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Re: sleep somebody round the faace

'Round' is a preposition in its own right in BrE.

I'm sticking with ​upside.

 

[JACEK1]

Re: sleep somebody round the faace

He that does something always makes mistakes. He that does not do anything never makes mistakes.

 

[emsr2d2]

I knew that AmE used "upside the head" but I've never stumbled across "upside the face".

 

[Raymott]

Although I am not a believer in physical abuse ...

Nor are a lot of people. That's why a threat is softened to "He needs to be slapped about the face with a wet fish!"