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Idiom

blow someone's head off

Meaning

To shoot someone in the head.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“The villain threatened to blow his head off if he moved.”

“In the intense action movie, the hero narrowly escaped when the enemy tried to blow his head off.”

“The soldier knew that if he stepped out from behind the wall, the sniper would likely blow his head off.”

Examples

simple

“The villain threatened to blow his head off if he moved.”

contextual

“In the intense action movie, the hero narrowly escaped when the enemy tried to blow his head off.”

complex

“The soldier knew that if he stepped out from behind the wall, the sniper would likely blow his head off.”

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