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keep your eye on the ballRemain Focused, Determined, AlertRate it:

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keep your feet on the groundmaintain a sense of composure, refuse to get all up in the air over any reversal.Rate it:

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Keep Your Fingers CrossedTo wish someone or something a good luck and successRate it:

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keep your friends close, and your enemies closerOne should be on their toes and alert of their surroundings if malicious people are around, to ensure such people can't wreak havoc in one's life.Rate it:

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keep your heads down!A military admonishment to infantrymen while crawling under barbed wire or across terrain toward the enemy.Rate it:

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Keep Your Nose to the GrindstoneImpelled to keep one self-busy all the time, always working hardRate it:

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Keep Your Shirt OnTo remain patient and cool, not to get angry and enraged and to control one’s temperedRate it:

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treat them mean, keep them keenA woman will be more interested in a man if he is not kind to her.Rate it:

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you can't keep a good man downA person who has talent, resolve, or moral strength will eventually succeed despite having been overlooked, injured, or defeated.Rate it:

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Eyes in the Back of Your HeadTo be able to imagine and feel what is happening behind or outside of one's field of visionRate it:

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g'headContraction of go ahead.Rate it:

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have one's head readTo have the bumps, indentations, and shape of one's skull examined and interpreted by a phrenologist.Rate it:

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i've seen a better looking head on a grub wormSomeone that drank all night before going to work with hair uncombed an bloodshot eyesRate it:

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lose one's head if it wasn't attachedprone to mislaying things.Rate it:

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make head or tail ofTo determine to be good or bad.Rate it:

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mr. potato headA popular, commercially available, children's game featuring a plastic potato onto which a variety of features can be added for amusing results.Rate it:

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nail the hammer on the headTo solve a problem of any sort; to get the right answer to something; to be on target, spot on.Rate it:

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off the top of one's headWithout great thought or investigation; extemporaneous; natural; offhand.Rate it:

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the fish rots from the headBad leaders damage an organization.Rate it:

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turn someone's headTo attract someone's romantic interest.Rate it:

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head girlsenior female pupilRate it:

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too much bed makes a dull headToo much inactivity makes one less mentally acute.Rate it:

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give someone a big headTo flatter someone excessively; to overpraise someone, usually resulting in them becoming proud, arrogant or conceited.Rate it:

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have one's head in the cloudsTo daydream; to think about matters other than the present reality.Rate it:

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head upTo lead or take the lead; to direct; to take charge.Rate it:

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pull one's head inTo withdraw as a turtle might; to discontinue support of a particular argument.Rate it:

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bite someone's head offTo severely berate someone.Rate it:

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have one's head in the cloudsTo have fantastic or impractical dreams; to think impractically.Rate it:

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laugh one's head offTo laugh uproariouslyRate it:

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over one's headMore complex or confusing than one can understand; beyond one’s comprehension..Rate it:

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head-in-the-sandExhibiting disregard or denial of a problem or threat.Rate it:

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have one's head up one's assTo be oblivious to the real state of things, from either stupidity or stubbornness.Rate it:

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off with their headAlternative form of off with someone's headRate it:

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price on one's headA compensation for capturing or killing a person, especially someone guilty of a crime.Rate it:

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with one's head held highproudly, with prideRate it:

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Hit the Nail Right on the HeadTo say something exactly accurate or correct, to reach at right conclusion of somethingRate it:

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hold one's head highto act with pride; to be proud in a positive wayRate it:

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like a bear with a sore headVery irritable; bad-tempered.Rate it:

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run around like a chicken with its head cut offTo act in a haphazard or aimless way; to act frantically or without control.Rate it:

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bare headTo go out into cold weather without covering your head.Rate it:

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beat one's head against a stone wallTo waste effort on a futile project.Rate it:

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bury one's head in the sandTo deliberately ignore the reality of a situation; to pretend a problem does not exist.Rate it:

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Bury Your Head in the SandTo hide from facts and current situations, to ignore the critical situation or danger as if you don’t see itRate it:

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come to a headTo rapidly come to a turning point.Rate it:

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come to a headTo suddenly make mature or perfected that which was inchoate or imperfectly formed.Rate it:

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come to a headTo suddenly reveal that which has lain latent for a time.Rate it:

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cool headA calm, focused demeanor and mindset; a person having such characteristics.Rate it:

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do someone's head inTo frustrate, irritate or disturb someone.Rate it:

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get it into one's headimagineRate it:

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get one's head aroundTo understand; fathom; solve.Rate it:

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