“someone's head”

The following 10 entries include the term someone's head.

a light bulb goes off/on (in someone's head)

idiom

used to say that a person suddenly understands something or has a great idea

a price on someone's head

idiom

: an amount of money that will be given to anyone who kills or captures someone

bite someone's head off

idiom

: to yell at someone or to be very critical of someone especially very suddenly and without a good reason

get it through someone's head

idiom

: to cause someone to learn, remember, or accept something

go over someone's head

idiom

: to discuss something with a person who is higher in rank than someone else : to bypass a person of immediately higher rank and seek out a person of even higher rank

hold/put a gun to someone's head

idiom

: to force someone to do something by using threats

knock some sense into someone's head

idiom

: to cause someone to stop thinking or behaving foolishly

make someone's head spin

idiom

: to make someone feel confused or dizzy

put ideas in/into someone's head

idiom

: to cause someone to have ideas or suspicions that he or she would not have had otherwise

someone's head is spinning

idiom

used to say that someone feels dizzy


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