use one's head (or loaf)

use one's head (or loaf)
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   шeвeлить мoзгaми, cooбpaжaть
    Feeling that Handler's heart was not in their dueling scene, Williamson cried, 'Put some life into it! Use your head!' (Time). 'Oh, use your loaf for Christ's sake,' I shouted. His incomprehension was beginning to get me down

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  • use one's loaf — Vrb phrs. To think, to use one s ingenuity, to use one s head. Loaf (of bread) being rhyming slang for head …   English slang and colloquialisms

  • Use one's loaf — to use one s head, to think about smth …   Dictionary of Australian slang

  • use one's loaf — Australian Slang to use one s head, to think about smth …   English dialects glossary

  • use one's loaf Brit. — use one s loaf Brit. informal use one s common sense. [prob. from loaf of bread, rhyming sl. for head .] → loaf …   English new terms dictionary

  • use one's loaf — ► use one s loaf Brit. informal use one s common sense. [ORIGIN: probably from loaf of bread, rhyming slang for «head».] Main Entry: ↑loaf …   English terms dictionary

  • loaf (of bread) —  Head. Esp. use one s loaf Exercise intelligence …   A concise dictionary of English slang

  • loaf — I. /loʊf / (say lohf) noun (plural loaves /loʊvz / (say lohvz)) 1. a portion of bread or cake baked in a mass of definite form. 2. a shaped or moulded mass of food, as of sugar, chopped meat, etc.: a veal loaf. {Middle English lo(o)f, Old English …  

  • loaf — loaf1 noun (plural loaves) a quantity of bread that is shaped and baked in one piece. Phrases use one s loaf Brit. informal use one s common sense. [prob. from loaf of bread, rhyming sl. for head .] Origin OE hlāf, of Gmc origin. loaf2 verb idle… …   English new terms dictionary

  • loaf — Noun. Head. Rhyming slang on loaf of bread. See use one s loaf …   English slang and colloquialisms

  • loaf — loaf1 [lōf] n. pl. loaves [lōvz] [ME lof < OE hlaf, akin to Ger laib, OHG hlaib, ON hleifr, Goth hlaifs] 1. a portion of bread baked in one piece, commonly of oblong shape and in a size convenient for table use 2. any mass of food shaped… …   English World dictionary

  • loaf — loaf1 /lohf/, n., pl. loaves /lohvz/. 1. a portion of bread or cake baked in a mass, usually oblong with a rounded top. 2. a shaped or molded mass of food, as of sugar or chopped meat: a veal loaf. 3. Brit. a. the rounded head of a cabbage,… …   Universalium


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