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have a head for

  1. Be able to tolerate, as in Nell has no head for liquor , or Luckily I have a good head for heights . [Early 1800s]

  2. Have a mental aptitude for, as in She has a good head for figures and straightened out the statistics in no time . [Early 1900s]



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Also, have a good or strong head for .

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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