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have one's head screwed on right en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of have one's head screwed on.
    • I think that while I suspect that any relationship between people of widely divergent ages has built into it by definition even more difficulties than the average relationship does — which is saying something — if one has one's head screwed on right, one will approach such a situation with caution for precisely those reasons. 1983 August 20, Larry Goldsmith, quoting Gerry Studds, “On the Hill and Out of the Closet”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 6, page 3:

Forms

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having one's head screwed on right Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
had one's head screwed on right Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
had one's head screwed on right Tense=Past lexicographic
has one's head screwed on right Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic