have someone's head
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have someone's head
verb has someone's head · having someone's head · had someone's head
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To punish someone severely, as by sacking (firing), imprisonment, or similarly harsh penalties.
The boss will have his head for losing the biggest customer over a mistake.
Similar: have someone's guts for garters, have someone's hide, tan someone's hide, amerce, castigate, chasten, chastise, come down on, correct, fix someone's wagon, have someone's head, give it to someone
- To kill somebody, especially with violence and especially by decapitation. The tyrant would have their heads for their temerity.
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