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have a head for

  1. Be able to tolerate, as in Nell has no head for liquor , or Luckily I have a good head for heights . [Early 1800s]

  2. Have a mental aptitude for, as in She has a good head for figures and straightened out the statistics in no time . [Early 1900s]



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Also, have a good or strong head for .
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The bridge offers unusual views for visitors who have a head for heights.

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“The pay, mostly. They both do the figuring. It’s an easy job—if you have a head for figures. In port, there’s plenty to do. We may sell one cargo, buy another, sell that in the next port, and buy a third. But between ports, you’d have an easy time. No watches to stand, no decks to swab.”

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His letter to his friend and fellow artist Émile Bernard after painting “La Mousmé,” suggest a process akin to manual labor: “I’m so worn out from it that I hardly have a head for writing,” he wrote.

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Some of the newest turbines stand nearly 200m high - so does she have a head for heights?

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"Militias have a head for business," said Marcelo Freixo, a state legislator who is accompanied by a half-dozen plainclothes bodyguards because of his work to combat the groups.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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