I am heading to/for/toward(s) the door/car/barbershop. All the above prepositions mean much the same. The Google Ngram Viewer shows that the preposition "for" is used at least ten times more frequently in comparison with the others, the preposition "towards" being used the rarest.

Aug 5, 2022 · Most likely you are conflating two different expressions on the tip of my tongue and off the top of my head and ending up with on the top of my head. With on on the tip of my tongue you can say you know the answer you just need a bit of a nudge to get it out: “I know the answer, it’s just on the tip of my tongue, give me a few more details ...

In formal usage, you can head in a direction or head toward a destination, but "head" refers just to setting a course (direction of movement). In common usage, though, head to or head over to have come to mean "go to" (referring to the destination, itself, rather than the direction of the destination). Either will work in your sentence, and ...

Dec 12, 2013 · [from the cartoon image of a light bulb lighting up above a character's head when he or she has an idea] Related to the concept of light providing an answer, is the noun. illumination "In a moment of illumination" TFD. spiritual …

Mar 17, 2021 · ‘Head’ is the original and central meaning of poll, from which all its modern uses have derived. The ‘voting’ sort of poll , for instance, which emerged in the 17th century, is etymologically a counting of ‘heads’, and the poll tax is a ‘per capita’ tax.

I'm afraid I have to disagree here. From my understanding, and a recent article in the Atlantic, derived from the new text Marketplace of the Marvelous: The Strange Origins of Modern Medicine, referring to a psychiatrist as a shrink refers not specifically to head-shrinking tribesmen, but to the field of phrenology, a significantly closer cultural institution to psychiatry.

Jan 22, 2014 · According to Kipfer & Chapman, Dictionary of American Slang, Fourth Edition (2007), "go (or hit) upside one's face (or head)" means "1 To beat or pummel, esp around the head 2 To defeat utterly; trounce; CLOBBER (1960s+ Black)." That doesn't sound much like "slap on the back of one's head" to me, but I don't have a better phrase to offer in its ...

Aug 20, 2011 · Which is the correct usage: "rack my brain" or "wrack my brain"? Google turned up pages with conflicting recommendations. One argument is that to "rack a brain" comes ...

Sep 19, 2011 · go south (also head south, take a turn south) 1 v phr by 1940s To disappear; fail by or as if by vanishing [examples omitted] 2 v phr by 1925 To abscond with money loot, etc. [examples omitted] 3 v phr underworld by 1950 To cheat, esp to cheat at cards [examples omitted] 4 v phr by 1980s To lessen; diminish [examples omitted] Probably from the ...

Jan 20, 2011 · A noggin as a mug was made in Germanic cultures to look like a head. It was a caricature of a head and ugly like a troll's head. So when used to refer to a person's head it has the meaning of the person's head and implies that the person is ugly. Hence, "Use your noggin" and "Got hit in the noggin" both work.