use your loaf

use your loaf
use your loaf british informal old-fashioned phrase
to think carefully about something
Thesaurus: to think carefully or a lot about thingssynonym
Main entry: loaf

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use your ˈhead idiom
(BrE also use your ˈloaf) (informal) used to tell sb to think about sth, especially when they have asked for your opinion or said sth stupid

‘Why don't you want to see him again?’ ‘Oh, use your head!’

From rhyming slang, in which loaf of bread stands for ‘head’.
Main entry:useidiom

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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