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Heads will roll

Posted by Jay Pea on May 09, 2011 at 09:36

: I did a search on your site for the phrase 'Heads will roll' but came up with no results, surely someone has posted this before?

I'd suggest that its origins are from the days of decapitation as a capital punishment... e.g. in France by guillotine.

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