H
Idioms beginning with "H"
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[heads up] {interj.}, {informal}
Keep your head up and be careful or ready. — Used as a warning to prepare for something or clear the way
"Heads up!" said the waiter carrying the hot food.
Heads up, boys! A train is coming.
* /Heads up, now! […]
[heads-up] {adj.}, {informal}
Wide-awake; alert; watchful; intelligent.
You must play hard, heads-up baseball to win this game.
Compare: [ON ONE'S TOES], [ON THE BALL].
[headshrinker] {n.}, {slang}, {informal}
A psychoanalyst, also called a shrink.
Forrester is falling apart; his family physician sent him to a head shrinker (to a shrink).
[heap coals of fire on one's head] {v. phr.}, {literary}
To be kind or helpful to someone who has done wrong to you, so that he is ashamed.
Alice heaped coals of fire on Mary's head by inviting her to a party after Mary had gossiped about her.
* […]
[hear a pin drop] {v. phr.}
Absolute silence.
It's so quiet in the room you could hear a pin drop.
[hear the beat] or [see the beat] {v. phr.}, {dialect}
To hear of or to see someone or something better or surpassing. — Usually used in negative or interrogative sentences and often followed by "of".
* /I never heard the beat! John swam all the way […]
[heart]
See:
[AFTER ONE'S OWN HEART],
[AT HEART],
[EAT ONE'S HEART OUT],
[BREAK ONE'S HEART],
[BY HEART],
[CHANGE OF HEART],
[CROSS ONE'S HEART],
[DO ONE GOOD] or [DO ONE'S HEART GOOD],
[FIND IT IN ONE'S HEART],
[FROM THE BOTTOM OF ONE'S HEART] […]