(one's) head on a plate/platter
(one's) head on a plate/platter
A phrase used hyperbolically to refer to a very harsh punishment. If I find out that Paul was the one who sabotaged my presentation to the board, I'll have his head on a plate! Identify the vandals, and bring me their heads on a platter!
See also: head, on, plate, platter
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- be a fate worse than death
- be out for blood
- be out for/after (one's) scalp
- scalp
- out for blood
- and his mother
- go to any length
- beat off
- go crazy
- chain to