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put our heads together
Idioms and Phrases
Also, put their heads together . Discuss or plan something among ourselves (or themselves), as in Let's put our heads together and figure out what we can give him for his birthday . This idiom, alluding to combining mental forces, originated in the late 1300s as lay our heads together and acquired its current form in the second half of the 1800s.Example Sentences
âAs a nine year old in Germany, E.T. introduced me to the idea that thereâs life outside planet earth. So for the last year, we all put our heads together to figure out how to put my own stamp on such an iconic character,â she wrote.
âWe just put our heads together and decided a bookstore would help make sure students could get to books that were being pulled from shelves,â says Decker, whose White Rose Books & More opened last fall in Kissimmee.
We put our heads together and came up with this list of the best gifts under $25 that weâve ever received, from pasta monsters to squirrel tables.
"I told one senator... we've got to put our heads together and figure this out. We need to be taking action right now. Because if we don't, our constituencies are gonna be fighting it in the streets. Do you want a civil war? I don't want a civil war. I don't want to have to draw my rifle. I want to make this problem go away with my legislative means of doing so," Moore told Bannon.
âI told one senator, I said listen we have to put our heads together and figure this out. We need to be taking action right now because if we donât, our constituencies are going to be fighting it in the streets,â Mr. Moore said on Steve Bannonâs âWar Roomâ show.
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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 HeritageŸ Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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