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Idioms and Phrases
Be in charge of, lead, as in She headed up the commission on conservation . [ Colloquial ; mid-1900s]Example Sentences
He was accused of giving Oricom the "heads up" with information to give them a "commercial advantage" to secure business.
Our ceremonies, meanwhile, were held in ornate buildings featuring marble and spires and headed up by men in robes, not a youth pastor with frosted tips and cargo shorts.
“But I don’t think that dynamic is helpful. For me, it’s more like do they keep their heads down or do they keep their heads up?”
When they accepted the award, Montenegro named a dozen Venezuelan musicians in a rhymed speech and urged his countrymen to keep their heads up.
A side trip to Sidecar Doughnuts After that, we’re going to head up north, but we have to stop at Sidecar Doughnuts in Santa Monica first.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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