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on one's head



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Idioms and Phrases

Also, on one's own head . As one's responsibility or fault, as in If the police catch you speeding it's on your own head . This idiom, dating from the 1300s, conjures up the image of blame or guilt falling on someone's head. Also see off one's head .
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Throughout social media, users described the band as “disrespectful” and “blonder than the Aryan gringos,” as well as “pochos” A piñata maker in Tamaulipas made effigies of the siblings, rendering them with darker skin, loincloths and nopales on one’s head: hateful caricatures that are used to malign Indigenous people in Mexico, and are often aimed at Mexicans who are perceived to deny their heritage.

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As Gen Z navigates the pandemic world, a tuft of fluffy hair perched on one’s head is surely one way to peacock, or perhaps even signal to older generations that the views and ideals of those coming up are unlike those who came before.

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Beanies make it easier to spin on one’s head.

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One need not strap on ski boots or stand on one’s head to stay fit in old age.

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Besides, if a beard is well cared-for, it’s no more of a shedding threat to your salad than the hair on one’s head, said Currie Corbin, editor-in-chief of Urban Beardsman, a men’s fashion website owned by Beardbrand, a men’s grooming company.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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