Headache Phrases

Phrases

• A head for business and a body for sin
• A world of pain
• Above my head
• Acid head
• Air head
• As mad as a bear with a sore head
• Bang your head against a brick wall
• Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head (The Beatles song lyric)
• Bayer works wonders (Bayer Aspirin advertising slogan)
• Be it on your head
• Bite someone's head off
• Bone head
• Bring to a head
• Bury your head in the sand
• Butt head
• Can't Get You Out of My Head (Kylie Minogue song)
• Can't make head or tail of it
• Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends! (line from the movie 25th Hour)
• Come to a head
• Couldn't make head or tail of it
• Do your head in
• Don't mess with my head
• Don't trouble your pretty little head about it
• Doubled up in pain
• Drown the pain
• Eyes in the back of your head
• Feeling no pain
• Fish always rot from the head downwards
• Fountain head
• Full head of hair
• Funny in the head
• Get it into your head
• Get your head around something
• Get your head down
• Get your head together
• Go and boil your head
• Go boil your head
• Go to your head
• Good head on his shoulders
• Got your head screwed on
• Hang your head
• Hanging over your head
• Have your head examined
• He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown paper (line from nursery rhyme)
• Head and shoulders above
• Head banger
• Head case
• Head count
• Head doctor
• Head first
• Head for figures
• Head for heights
• Head for the Border (Taco Bell Restaurants advertising slogan)
• Head for the hills
• Head for the mountains (Busch Beer advertising slogan)
• Head games
• Head honcho
• Head hunting
• Head in the clouds
• Head in the sand
• Head like a sieve
• Head of hair
• Head of steam
• Head of the family
• Head of the household
• Head off
• Head on
• Head on collision
• Head over heels in love
• Head start
• Head them off at the pass
• Head to head
• Head to toe
• Head up
• Head wind
• Heap coals of fire on someone's head
• Heart throb

• Hit the nail on the head
• Hold a gun to his head
• Hold up your head
• Hold your head up high
• Hung over
• I could do that standing on my head
• I never knew you had dandruff (Head and Shoulders shampoo advertising slogan)
• If you can keep your head when all about you (from a poem by Kipling)
• If you keep late hours for Society's sake, Bromo-Seltzer will cure that headache (Bromo-Seltzer advertising slogan)
• In over your head
• Keep a civil tongue in your head
• Keep a cool head
• Keep your head
• Keep your head above water
• Keep your head down
• Knock it on the head
• Knuckle head
• Laugh your head off
• Level head
• Like a chicken with its head cut off
• Loaf of bread (Cockney rhyming slang for head)
• Lose your head
• Make your head spin
• Meat head
• My head is spinning
• Need your head examined
• No pain, no gain
• Not right in the head
• Nothing to worry your pretty little head about
• Off the top of my head
• Off with his head
• Off your head
• Old head on young shoulders
• On me head son (Invitation to cross a football so that another player can head it)
• On pain of death
• On your own head be it
• Out of your head
• Over your head
• Pain barrier
• Pain in the arse
• Pain in the bum
• Pain in the butt
• Pain in the neck
• Pecker head
• Petrol head
• Pointy head
• Pot head
• Price on his head
• Propeller head
• Puddin' Head (Nickname of Colonel Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan))
• Puddin' Head (Nickname of Willie Jones)
• Pull your head in
• Put a gun to your head
• Put your head above the parapet
• Put your head into the lion's mouth
• Put your head on the block
• Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (Burt Bacharach song)
• Sleepy head
• Snap someone's head off
• Soft in the head
• Splitting headache
• Stand it on its head
• Strong in the arm and thick in the head
• Take it into your head
• Take two aspirin and call me in the morning
• Talk over your head
• Talking head
• Tense nervous headache
• The Head Ball Coach (Nickname of Steve Spurrier)
• The Prince of Pain (Nickname of comedian Richard Lewis)
• Throw a beanball (A baseball expression meaning to attack an opponent by aiming at their head)
• Towel head (derogatory slang term referring to an Arab man)
• Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
• Upon your head be it
• Wet the baby's head
• Win by a head
• Yorkshire born in Yorkshire bred, strong in the arm and weak in the head
• You would forget your head if it weren't screwed on