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Meaning of do one's block | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To become enraged.

Australia, slang

Examples

“Dad was […] the man who slaved his guts out to win the status of a landowner, got dead drunk and was carried home from the local pub, and did his block, and shouted and raved, and sometimes bawled like a bull, but at other times was tender with man and beast.”
“He looked so sympathetic that I felt sorry about doing my block and asked him to have a whisky.”
“I did my block and told him that he was there because I had consented to him being there, he wasn′t part of the interviewing team, and that if he was a smart-arse one more time, there would probably be a fight in the interview room.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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