Skull Phrases

Phrases

• A bear of very little brain
• A bone to pick
• A head for business and a body for sin
• Above my head
• Acid head
• Air head
• Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio
• As dry as a bone
• As mad as a bear with a sore head
• Baby brain (forgetfulness caused by lack of sleep when caring for a newborn)
• Bang your head against a brick wall
• Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head (The Beatles song lyric)
• Be it on your head
• Bite someone's head off
• Bombed out of your skull
• Bone dry
• Bone head
• Bone idle
• Bone of contention
• Bone to pick with you

• Bone up on
• Bone weary
• Bone yard
• Brain bucket
• Brain candy
• Brain dead
• Brain drain
• Brain dump
• Brain fade
• Brain fart
• Brain picker
• Brain teaser
• Brain wave
• 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
• Chilled to the bone
• Close to the bone

• Come to a head
• Couldn't make head or tail of it
• Cut prices to the bone
• Diarrhoea of the jawbone
• Do your head in
• Doesn't have a jealous bone in his body
• Dog and bone (Cockney rhyming slang for telephone)
• Don't mess with my head
• Don't trouble your pretty little head about it
• Eyes in the back of your head
• Fish always rot from the head downwards
• Fountain head
• Full head of hair
• Funny in the head
• Game brain
• 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 it on the brain
• Got your head screwed on
• Hang your head
• Hanging over your head
• Have a bone to pick
• 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
• Hit the nail on the head
• Hold a gun to his head
• Hold up your head
• Hold your head up high
• 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)
• 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
• Lame brain
• 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
• 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 Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
• Old head on young shoulders
• On me head son (Invitation to cross a football so that another player can head it)
• On the brain
• On your own head be it
• Out of your head
• Out of your skull
• Over your head

• 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 brain in gear
• 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)
• Skeleton in the cupboard
• Skeleton key
• Skeleton staff
• Skin and bone
• Sleepy head

• Snap someone's head off
• Soft in the head
• Stand it on its head
• Strong in the arm and thick in the head
• Take it into your head
• Talk over your head
• Talking head
• Telling bone
• The Head Ball Coach (Nickname of Steve Spurrier)
• This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions? (The Partnership for a Drug-Free America advertising slogan)
• 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
• Work one's fingers to the bone
• 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