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Cause to reach a turning point or crisis. For example, Management's newest policy has brought matters to a head . The related phrase come to a head means “to reach a crisis,” as in With the last break-in, the question of security came to a head . These phrases allude to the medical sense of head , the tip of an abscess that is about to burst. [Mid-1500s]

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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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