16 VERB [usu passive] If a piece of writing is headed a particular title, it has that title written at the beginning of it. □ One chapter is headed, 'Beating the Test'.
17 VERB If you head a ball in football, you hit it with your head in order to make it go in a particular direction. □ [V n prep/adv] He headed the ball across the face of the goal. [Also V n]
18 → see also heading
19 PHRASE You use a head or per head after stating a cost or amount in order to indicate that that cost or amount is for each person in a particular group. □ This simple chicken dish costs less than £1 a head.
20 PHRASE From head to foot means all over your body. [EMPHASIS ] □ Colin had been put into a bath and been scrubbed from head to foot.
21 PHRASE If you a have a head for something, you can deal with it easily. For example, if you have a head for figures , you can do arithmetic easily, and if you have a head for heights , you can climb to a great height without feeling afraid. □ I don't have a head for business.
22 PHRASE If you get a fact or idea into your head , you suddenly realize or think that it is true and you usually do not change your opinion about it. □ Once they get an idea into their heads, they never give up.
23 PHRASE If you say that someone has got something into their head , you mean that they have finally understood or accepted it, and you are usually criticizing them because it has taken them a long time to do this. □ She can't get it into her head that Chris will never change.
24 PHRASE If alcoholic drink goes to your head , it makes you feel drunk. □ That wine was strong, it went to your head.
25 PHRASE If you say that something such as praise or success goes to someone's head , you are criticizing them because you think that it makes them too proud or confident. [DISAPPROVAL ] □ Ford is definitely not a man to let a little success go to his head.
26 PHRASE If you are head over heels or head over heels in love , you are very much in love.
27 PHRASE If you keep your head , you remain calm in a difficult situation. If you lose your head , you panic or do not remain calm in a difficult situation. □ She was able to keep her head and not panic. □ She lost her head and started screaming at me.
28 PHRASE If you knock something on the head , you stop it. [BRIT , INFORMAL ] □ When we stop enjoying ourselves we'll knock it on the head.
29 PHRASE Phrases such as laugh your head off and scream your head off can be used to emphasize that someone is laughing or screaming a lot or very loudly. [EMPHASIS ] □ He carried on telling a joke, laughing his head off.
30 PHRASE If you say that someone is off their head , you think that their ideas or behaviour are very strange, foolish, or dangerous. [mainly BRIT , INFORMAL , DISAPPROVAL ] □ He's gone completely off his head.
31 PHRASE If you stand an idea or argument on its head or turn it on its head , you think about it or treat it in a completely new and different way. □ Their relationship turned the standard notion of marriage on its head.
32 PHRASE If something such as an idea, joke, or comment goes over someone's head , it is too difficult for them to understand. □ I admit that a lot of the ideas went way over my head.
33 PHRASE If someone does something over another person's head , they do it without asking them or discussing it with them, especially when they should do so because the other person is in a position of authority. □ He was reprimanded for trying to go over the heads of senior officers.
34 PHRASE If you say that something unpleasant or embarrassing rears its ugly head or raises its ugly head , you mean that it occurs, often after not occurring for some time. □ There was a problem which reared its ugly head about a week after she moved back in.
35 PHRASE If you stand on your head , you balance upside down with the top of your head and your hands on the ground.
36 PHRASE If you say that you cannot make head nor tail of something or you cannot make head or tail of it, you are emphasizing that you cannot understand it at all. [INFORMAL ] □ I couldn't make head nor tail of the damn film.
37 PHRASE If somebody takes it into their head to do something, especially something strange or foolish, they suddenly decide to do it. □ He suddenly took it into his head to go out to Australia to stay with his son.
38 PHRASE If a problem or disagreement comes to a head or is brought to a head , it becomes so bad that something must be done about it. □ These problems came to a head in September when five of the station's journalists were sacked.
39 PHRASE If two or more people put their heads together , they talk about a problem they have and try to solve it. □ So everyone put their heads together and eventually an amicable arrangement was reached.
40 PHRASE If you keep your head above water , you just avoid getting into difficulties; used especially to talk about business. □ We are keeping our head above water, but our cash flow position is not too good.
41 PHRASE If you say that heads will roll as a result of something bad that has happened, you mean that people will be punished for it, especially by losing their jobs. □ The group's problems have led to speculation that heads will roll.