AE 1128 - Expression: Knock Yourself Out
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You Take Care of Yourself
Knock is a verb, and it means to collide with something or some one. So your hand is colliding with the door yourself. This is a pronoun, and it's used to refer the person being addressed as the object of a verb or preposition when they are also the subject of a clause. I take care of myself gives it to himself. You give it to yourself. Out here is pearing with the word knock. And i think my intuition is telling me that out here is associated with the fact that someone is going unconscious. The boxer was knocked out by his opponent. His opponent knocked him out. Ah, bad jokes. All right, sir, let's get into
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