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Aug 5, 2022 · 0 Most likely you are conflating two different expressions on the tip of my tongue and off the top of my head and ending up with on the top of my head.
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Jul 27, 2018 · The head and internal organs putrefy faster than the flesh. But the internal organs lay deep inside the stomach where the smell is not readily detectable. The smell
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Sep 21, 2016 · Being inside one's own head is a general metaphor for introspection, "reflective looking inward", as well as for over-thinking or over-analyzing something. It is be
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Nov 7, 2022 · Ashes on my head!". I believe this idiom stems from the bible where it is found in 2 Samuel 13-19: "And Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long robe that she w
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Jul 29, 2020 · My student often uses the phrase 'sit on one's head' when she describes noisy and restless children that don't give their parents or other people around any persona
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The head is obvious: most government-issued coins, from antiquity to modern times, have borne the bust of some famous ruler on one side. But most coins do not come with some tailed
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May 20, 2018 · @EricDuminil Just looked at its meaning, and it is "the skin on top of one's head where hair grows." It is near, but not close enough to be defined as the top of a
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May 3, 2011 · Where does the phrase "egg on my face" come from, and what is its meaning?
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2). the father hit his son’s head not with his fist, but with his palm which is along the head for a short moment. That is, the easy-to-bend quality of the hitting tool agrees wi
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/23963/how-did-the-phrase-are-you-nuts-come-about
May 5, 2011 · Sense influenced probably by metaphoric application of nut to "head" (1846, e.g. to be off one's nut "be insane," 1860). So, in a similar since of being out of one's