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Idiom

scream one's head off

Meaning

To scream out to one's full capacity.

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

Examples

“The children scream their heads off when they play outside.”

“The fans started to scream their heads off as soon as the band walked onto the stage.”

“Startled by the sudden appearance of the intruder, the woman screamed her head off until the neighbors finally rushed over to assist her.”

Examples

simple

“The children scream their heads off when they play outside.”

contextual

“The fans started to scream their heads off as soon as the band walked onto the stage.”

complex

“Startled by the sudden appearance of the intruder, the woman screamed her head off until the neighbors finally rushed over to assist her.”

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