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box someone's ears
vs
give someone a (good) drubbing
box someone's ears
verb
To slap someone on the side of the head, usually as an informal punishment.
give someone a (good) drubbing
How often have the words
box someone's ears
and
give someone a (good) drubbing
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)