have a swelled head Idiom, Proverb

a good head

"friendly, generous person; a good egg" Sean is a good head. He'll help at the food bank.

a head start

a chance to start ahead of the other runners etc. Give the smallest runner a head start. He can't run very fast.

a hothead

"a person who gets angry easily; hot tempered" Phil, don't be such a hothead. Try to control your anger.

ahead of the game

finished your work, paid all the bills, caught up With all these expenses, we can't seem to get ahead of the game.

ahead of time

early We started the meeting ahead of time so we could go home early.

airhead

(See an airhead)

an airhead

a person who talks without thinking, a fool Sally is such an airhead. She said that chicklets are baby chickens.

an egghead

a very intelligent person.

at loggerheads

not agreeing, opposed to each other They're at loggerheads over who owns the farm. They don't agree.

beat your head against a stone wall

try an impossible task, work on a futile project Preventing war is like beating your head against a stone wall.

have a swelled head

To be conceited, arrogant, or self-aggrandizing. Cheryl has such a big arch on her, all she anytime talks about is herself. Janice has had a bit of a big arch anytime back she got that promotion.Learn more: have, head, swell

*swelled head

Fig. a accompaniment of actuality conceited. (Typically: get ~; accept ~; accord addition ~.) John got a swelled arch afterwards he won the prize. Don't get a swelled arch from all this success.Learn more: head, swell

swelled head, accept a

Be conceited, as in Winning all those prizes has not accustomed her a swelled head, at atomic not yet. This argot began as be swellheaded, aboriginal recorded in 1817. The present anatomy dates from about 1860. For a analogue see big head. Learn more: have, swell

swelled head, to accept a

To be conceited. The angel conveyed is that of accepting one’s airs augment one’s arch size. The appellation dates from the nineteenth century. J. J. Cooper acclimated it with adapted abhorrence (Simon Suggs’ Adventures, 1845): “They’re all a backpack of d——d swell-heads.”Learn more: have, swell

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