Sekirov Dictionary

knock the corners off

verb1

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To accustom (a person) to the vicissitudes of life; to cure a person of naïveté, selfishness, etc. by exposure to reality.
- That's the point. He needs a father to knock the corners off him and whip him into shape.' — 2007

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