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one's head off

one's head off adverb: without restraint, hesitation, or inhibition; endlessly.

Adverb

one's head off

  1. Without restraint, hesitation, or inhibition; endlessly.
    • He has been worrying his head off all morning about how he will do on the finals.
    • [Tom] said now she couldn’t ever count them spoons twice alike again to save her life; and wouldn’t believe she’d counted them right, if she did! and said that after she’d about counted her head off, for the next three days, he judged she’d give it up and offer to kill anybody that wanted her to...1884, Mark Twain, chapter 37, in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, London: Thomas Nelson, page 327

Questions about one's head off

What does one's head off mean?
One's head off means without restraint, hesitation, or inhibition; endlessly.
What part of speech is one's head off?
One's head off is an adverb.

Words near one's head off in the dictionary

  1. one's fingers are all thumbs
  2. one's fingers itch
  3. one's flabber is gasted
  4. one's got to do what one's got to do
  5. one's gotta do what one's gotta do
  6. one's head off
  7. one's heart bleeds
  8. one's heart in one's mouth
  9. one's heart in one's throat
  10. one's heart out
  11. one's heart sinks

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