go to someone's head en · VERB
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(idiomatic) To strongly affect a person, especially to the detriment of his or her senses or mental faculties. ▸ To cloud one's thinking, as do alcohol and many drugs.
For I am a man of many sorrows. Yet there is no necessity for me to sit sobbing and sighing in someone else's house. Unremitting grief is tiresome and I'm afraid some of your maids or you yourself might lose patience with me and conclude it was the wine that had gone to my head and released this flood of tears.
2003, Emile Victor Rieu, D. Christopher H. Rieu, transl., The Odyssey, translation of original by Homer:That one glass has gone to my head, that is, touched my brain; slightly, to be sure, but enough to weaken my will.
1886, John Bartholomew Gough, Lyman Abbott, Platform Echos; or, Living Truths for Head and Heart:I'm gonna start a revolution from my bed / 'Cause you said the brains I had went to my head
1996, “Don't Look Back in Anger”, in (What's the Story) Morning Glory?, performed by Oasis:Oh, red, red wine / She goes to my head / The blue cigarette / And your Italian bed
1982, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Robin Scott, “Left Bank”, in The Arrangement:Moreover, Dolores' promise had gone to my head like new wine.
1903, Jerome K. Jerome, Robert Barr, Arthur Lawrence, Sidney Sime, editors, The Idler: an illustrated monthly magazine, volume 22:
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(idiomatic) To strongly affect a person, especially to the detriment of his or her senses or mental faculties. ▸ To greatly raise one's conception of their social status or accomplishments.
He caught the biggest fish on record and it really went to his head.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| goes to someone's head | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| gone to someone's head | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| going to someone's head | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| went to someone's head | Tense=Past | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Translations (15)
ro i se urca la cap (Translations) · fr monter à la tête (Translations) · pl uderzyć do głowy (Translations) · es subir a la cabeza (Translations) · it entrare in testa (Translations) · hu fejébe száll (Translations) · de zu Kopf steigen (Translations) · sh udariti u glavu (Translations) · fr entêter (Translations) · fi nousta päähän (Translations) · ru уда́рить в го́лову (Translations) · it dare alla testa (Translations) · cy codi i'w ben (Translations) · ru вскружи́ть го́лову (Translations) · pl uderzać do głowy (Translations)