go to one's head

1. Make one dizzy or drunk, as in Wine always goes to her head . [c. 1900]

2. Make one proud or vain, as in All this money is going to his head . [Early 1900s]

Example Sentences

It’d be easy to let this flush of a time go to one’s head.

From New York Times

"This is all light-hearted banter but it would be a mistake to let it go to one's head."

From BBC

“I don’t believe in letting any kind of praise go to one’s head. In a career, as in life, we can be way up one day and down the next. It doesn’t pay to permit such things to affect one’s outlook.”

From New York Times

But they never let success go to one’s head.

From New York Times

Kale�s antics on and off the slopes keep him grounded in the sport where success can easily go to one�s head � Kale is the definition of snowboarding.

From Time Magazine Archive