bite someone's head off, to

bite someone's head off

Also, snap someone's head off. Scold or speak very angrily to someone, as in Ask her to step down from the board? She'd bite my head off! The first expression, dating from the mid-1900s, replaced the much earlier bite someone's nose off (16th century); the variant was first recorded in 1886.

bite someone's head off

snap someone's head off

INFORMAL

If someone bites your head off or snaps your head off, they speak to you in an unpleasant, angry way, because they are annoyed about something. And don't bite my head off just because you're fed up! I don't know what's wrong with Julia but she snapped my head off just now.

bite (or snap) someone's head off

reply sharply and brusquely to someone.

bite someone's head off, to

To respond angrily to a moderate or harmless request or remark. It appears to have replaced two earlier versions, to bite someone’s nose off, which dates back to the sixteenth century (“She would . . . bite off a man’s nose with an answere,” Thomas Nashe, 1599), and to snap someone’s head off, current in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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释义	bite someone's head off, to bite someone's head off Also, snap someone's head off. Scold or speak very angrily to someone, as in Ask her to step down from the board? She'd bite my head off! The first expression, dating from the mid-1900s, replaced the much earlier bite someone's nose off (16th century); the variant was first recorded in 1886. See also: bite, head, off The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. bite someone's head off or snap someone's head off INFORMAL If someone bites your head off or snaps your head off, they speak to you in an unpleasant, angry way, because they are annoyed about something. And don't bite my head off just because you're fed up! I don't know what's wrong with Julia but she snapped my head off just now. See also: bite, head, off Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. bite (or snap) someone's head off reply sharply and brusquely to someone. See also: bite, head, off Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary bite someone's head off, to To respond angrily to a moderate or harmless request or remark. It appears to have replaced two earlier versions, to bite someone’s nose off, which dates back to the sixteenth century (“She would . . . bite off a man’s nose with an answere,” Thomas Nashe, 1599), and to snap someone’s head off, current in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. See also: bite, head The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: be shouting (one's) head off be shouting your head off knock (someone or something) on the head knock someone or something on the head knock something on the head head into head into (something) go to one's head, to a head head up
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