one's head off
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.35 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Without restraint, hesitation, or inhibition; endlessly.
Example Sentences
- "He has been worrying his head off all morning about how he will do on the finals."
- "[Tom] said now she couldn’t ever count them spoons twice alike again to save her life; and wouldn’t believe she’d counted them right, if she did! and said that after she’d about counted her head off, for the next three days, he judged she’d give it up and offer to kill anybody that wanted her to ever count them any more."
- "Besides, sister, I don’t want you working your head off for us—you’ve no reason to do that."
- "1998, Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible, New York: HarperFlamingo, p. 103, Late in the fall, the milky green bushes surrounding every house and path suddenly revealed themselves as poinsettias. They bloomed their heads off and Christmas rang out in the sticky heat […]"