Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

keeping one's head on one's shoulders

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.78 in modern English

Syllables
keep-ing one's -head- on one's shoul-ders
IPA
45
Scrabble Score
30
Letters
5
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of keep one's head on one's shoulders

Questions

What does keeping one's head on one's shoulders mean?
present participle and gerund of keep one's head on one's shoulders

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