head for

verb

1. to go or cause to go (towards)

2. to be destined for

   to head for trouble

Idioms and Phrases

Proceed or go in a certain direction, as in I'm heading for town, or I believe Karen and Jane are heading for a big quarrel. This expression, which uses head in the sense of “advance toward,” is occasionally amplified with a figurative destination, especially in the American West. For example, head for the hills means “to run away to high and safer ground” or “to flee from danger.” It is often used facetiously, as in Here comes that old bore—head for the hills! Head for the setting sun alludes to where a wanted man or outlaw went when a law-enforcement agent was close behind him, that is, farther west, and head for the last roundup means “to die.” [Early 1800s]

Example Sentences

When a devaluation looms and the central bank is burning through reserves with the help of the Americans or the IMF, they head for the exits.

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"All you have to do is lose your head for a second and you're done with," Biya once told a journalist.

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But as we head for Halloween and Thanksgiving and round the corner of one year into the next, roughly two-thirds of property owners have not yet applied for building permits, and there is widespread frustration, exhaustion and uncertainty.

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The show’s been in our head for six years; it was always like, Season 2 was once bitten, twice shy, especially if you’re Wednesday Addams — or once bitten, twice stabbed.

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In a bizarre ending, Adil Rashid takes two wickets in two balls with South Africa needing one run to win before Dewald Brevis hits the England spinner back over his head for six to claim a comfortable seven-wicket victory in the first ODI at Headingley.

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