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head for
verb
- to go or cause to go (towards)
- to be destined for
to head for trouble
Idioms and Phrases
Proceed or go in a certain direction, as in I'm heading for town , or I believe Karen and Jane are heading for a big quarrel . This expression, which uses head in the sense of 鈥渁dvance toward,鈥 is occasionally amplified with a figurative destination, especially in the American West. For example, head for the hills means 鈥渢o run away to high and safer ground鈥 or 鈥渢o flee from danger.鈥 It is often used facetiously, as in Here comes that old bore鈥攈ead for the hills! Head for the setting sun alludes to where a wanted man or outlaw went when a law-enforcement agent was close behind him, that is, farther west, and head for the last roundup means 鈥渢o die.鈥 [Early 1800s]Example Sentences
Let鈥檚 be clear: You do not want to live in a country where the president can fire the central bank head for not giving him low interest rates at all times 鈥 but you may just end up in one!
We also built an incredible photorealistic prosthetic head for that, so it looked really gnarly when we did it in person.
I had a lot of stuff in my head for Chelsea that was also really personal.
"It makes you feel so alive and clears your head for the rest of the day," he said.
Kasey Swithenbank, Lush's retail head for the UK and Ireland, said: "We are going to be taking small incremental price changes. We are taking an approach where we look at certain categories at key points of the year so hopefully our customers don't feel the full burden straight away."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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