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splitting headache

[ split-ing hed-eyk ]

noun

  1. a severe pain felt in the head; an extremely bad headache:

    A few days into the low-carb diet I started to get a splitting headache.

    Unless you want a splitting headache, do not listen to the first track on the album.



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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of splitting headache1

First recorded in 1810–20
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Sometimes I play a scene with a splitting headache and people don't even know, but I know, so that makes some sense.

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Naama, who still makes the world’s most delicious batch cocktails, stopped drinking a few years ago after getting the sweats and a splitting headache halfway through a vodka soda.

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“I was hit all day by doors opening in my face; repeatedly punched, slapped and knocked down by an unlovely and unapologetic Steve Martin — perhaps he was method acting — and came home grumpy with a splitting headache,†she wrote, according to Insider.

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Listen to Yeat for the first time and you may end up bewildered, with a splitting headache and the nihilistic view that modern hit music as we know it is ruined.

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The darkness rolled out as it had rolled in, leaving a splitting headache and sore muscles in its wake.

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