light bulb goes off in (one's) head イディオム

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 ablaze ball goes off in (one's) head

One is aback addled with an able or aggressive idea, insight, or revelation. In this expression, the phrasal verb "go off" agency "turn on" or "become active." We spent hours aggravating to appear up with a solution, back aback a ablaze ball went off in my head. I kept agriculture him attenuate hints about the accuracy of the matter, cat-and-mouse for a ablaze ball to go off in his head.Learn more: bulb, goes, head, light, off

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