knock the corners off (English, verb)
expansion: knock the corners off (third-person singular simple present knocks the corners off, present participle knocking the corners off, simple past and past participle knocked the corners off)
Senses:
glosses: To accustom (a person) to the vicissitudes of life; to cure a person of naïveté, selfishness, etc. by exposure to reality.
tags: ambitransitive
Forms:
form: knocks the corners off
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: knocking the corners off
tags: participle
present
form: knocked the corners off
tags: participle
past
form: knocked the corners off
tags: past