- get it through someone's head
- get it through someone's head: to cause someone to learn and remember something
She's finally gotten it through their heads that she doesn't eat meat.
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Useful english dictionary. 2012.
get it through someone's head
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get something through your thick head — get something into/through/your thick head/skull/informal phrase to start understanding something This expression is used when you are angry and you think someone is being stupid Will you get it into your thick head that I’m not coming! Thes … Useful english dictionary
get it through one's head — (Slang) make someone understand it; understand … English contemporary dictionary
get something into your thick head — get something into/through/your thick head/skull/informal phrase to start understanding something This expression is used when you are angry and you think someone is being stupid Will you get it into your thick head that I’m not coming! Thes … Useful english dictionary
get through one's head — {v. phr.} 1. To understand or believe. * /Jack couldn t get it through his head that his father wouldn t let him go to camp if his grades didn t improve./ * /At last Mary got it through her head that she had failed to pass the test./ 2. To make… … Dictionary of American idioms
get through one's head — {v. phr.} 1. To understand or believe. * /Jack couldn t get it through his head that his father wouldn t let him go to camp if his grades didn t improve./ * /At last Mary got it through her head that she had failed to pass the test./ 2. To make… … Dictionary of American idioms
get\ through\ one's\ head — v. phr. 1. To understand or believe. Jack couldn t get it through his head that his father wouldn t let him go to camp if his grades didn t improve. At last Mary got it through her head that she had failed to pass the test. 2. To make someone… … Словарь американских идиом
head — [hed] n. [ME hede, heved < OE heafod, akin to Ger haupt (OHG houbit, Goth haubith) < IE base * kaput (orig. prob. cup shaped) > L caput: merged in Gmc with word akin to OHG hūba, a cap, crest (Ger haube) < IE base * keu , to bend,… … English World dictionary
head — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. pate, poll, noggin (sl.), bean (sl.); chief, director, manager, leader; title, heading, caption; talent, ability, judgment; class, category, type, grouping; slang, user, addict (see habit). See… … English dictionary for students
get — [ get ] (past tense got [ gat ] ; past participle gotten [ gatn ] ) verb *** ▸ 1 obtain/receive ▸ 2 become/start to be ▸ 3 do something/have something done ▸ 4 move to/from ▸ 5 progress in activity ▸ 6 fit/put something in a place ▸ 7 understand… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
get — /get/ verb past tense got, past participle got especially BrE gotten especially AmE present participle getting RECEIVE/OBTAIN 1 RECEIVE (transitive not in passive) to be given or receive something: Sharon always seems to get loads of mail. | Why… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
