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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'a good slap' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to a slap given in a humorous context between friends or family members, for example: "I was teasing my sister about her new haircut, but she gave me a good slap and told me to be nicer!".
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A good slap, perhaps.
Clearly some people just need a good slap.
Do our children feel better for a good slap?
I'd like to meet them and give them a good slap.
You can just give someone a good slap, but that's about it.
But sometimes to find it, you need a good slap in the face".
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Even a good, slap-up, log-cabin lunch came in at a fiver (mulled wine £2; spag bol £3).
If he called her a bitch or ho, would she give him a good slapping?
"They had a good slapping coming .Many Croatians would like somehow to opt out of the Balkans altogether, just as Slovenia has.
Grabbing hold of the nearest Forest fans he could find, he applied what is known in the business as a good slapping.
If you think that's a neatly creepy trick, you must not have heard about the man in Omsk, who faked his own death in a car accident and then proposed to his girlfriend, who rightly gave him a good slapping before answering in the affirmative.
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