wrap one's head around
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.96 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To crash into (something, especially a pole) messily and fatally while travelling in a motor vehicle.
Informal
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wrap, head, around.
Example Sentences
- "It is sometimes mind-boggling to try and wrap one's head around all the possible information sets which one should try to address."
- "“I know how important it is to vote, but I couldn’t wrap my head around the options at that point,” Ms. Dibble said of the 2016 election."
- "Caine was pretty rough around the edges, though. I wasn't quite on Scratch's level of thinking outside the box, but it was good groundwork for something the rest of the team could wrap their heads around."
- "“Some crazy young bastard wrapped his head around a pole.”"
- "The words barely left the lips when there came a loud cry and a trample of hoof beats. It was Kelly, radiant and shining, her mane was whipping with her speed. I cried out to her and the mare came to a stop and wrapped her head around mine."