price on (one's) head Idiom, Proverb

a good head

"friendly, generous person; a good egg" Sean is a good head. He'll help at the food bank.

a head start

a chance to start ahead of the other runners etc. Give the smallest runner a head start. He can't run very fast.

a hothead

"a person who gets angry easily; hot tempered" Phil, don't be such a hothead. Try to control your anger.

ahead of the game

finished your work, paid all the bills, caught up With all these expenses, we can't seem to get ahead of the game.

ahead of time

early We started the meeting ahead of time so we could go home early.

airhead

(See an airhead)

an airhead

a person who talks without thinking, a fool Sally is such an airhead. She said that chicklets are baby chickens.

an egghead

a very intelligent person.

at loggerheads

not agreeing, opposed to each other They're at loggerheads over who owns the farm. They don't agree.

beat your head against a stone wall

try an impossible task, work on a futile project Preventing war is like beating your head against a stone wall.

a bulk on (one's) head

An bulk of money actuality offered as a accolade for one's capture, or, in some cases, killing. I'm sorry, but we can't biking with your brother any longer. The sheriff has put a bulk on his arch and it's too alarming for the blow of us! I'll never be able to alive affably in this boondocks as continued as I accept a bulk on my head.Learn more: head, on, price

*a bulk on one's head

a accolade for one's capture. (*Typically: get ~; accept ~; put ~; abode ~.) We captured a bandit who had a bulk on his head, and the sheriff gave us the reward. The cheat was so mean, he angry in his own brother, who had a bulk on his head.Learn more: head, on, price

price on one's head

A accolade for capturing or killing someone, usually addition accusable of a crime. For example, He was a consecutive killer, and they put a bulk on his head. The head in this appellation apparently alludes to the earlier abuse of beheading. [Mid-1700s] Learn more: head, on, price

a bulk on someone's head

If there is a bulk on someone's head, addition has offered money if they are bent or killed. He had alert fled the breadth with a bulk on his head.Learn more: head, on, price

a bulk on someone's head

a accolade offered for someone's abduction or death.Learn more: head, on, price

a ˈprice on somebody’s head

a accolade for award or killing a criminal: In the Wild West there were cowboys who acclimated to coursing down any man with a bulk on his head.Learn more: head, on, price

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