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idiombring sth to a headused in order to say that an action or event makes a situation which has some problems suddenly get much worse, so that it is necessary to do something to solve the problem:Gaider's resignation threat was a deliberate move to bring matters to a head for Yeltsin. The fact that she would be away for six weeks finally brought things to a head, and Paul demanded to know if she was going to marry him.come to a head: The violence between the two gangs came to a head with the deaths of six gang members in a fire-bomb attack on a house on the South Side.
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