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noggin

Head.

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use one's head

[use one's head] or {slang} [use one's bean] or {slang} [use one's noodle] or {slang} use [one's noggin] {v. phr.} To use your brain or mind; think; have common sense. […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

head

[head] See: [ACID HEAD], [BEAT INTO ONE'S HEAD], [BEAT ONE'S HEAD AGAINST A WALL], [BIG HEAD], [COUNT HEADS], [EYES IN THE BACK OF ONE'S HEAD], [FROM HEAD TO FOOT], [GET […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

bonce

[bonce] {n.} Head, crown of the head. Also a large playing marble. British slang (Wikipedia)

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Slang is

"very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid and ephemeral than ordinary language" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary) - learn ~600 slang expressions

An idiom is

an expression "whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements… or from the general grammatical rules of a language"

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hold one's breath

[hold one's breath] {v. phr.} 1. To stop breathing for a moment when you are excited or nervous. * /The race was so close […]

stick to one's ribs

[stick to one's ribs] or [stick to the ribs] {v. phr.}, {informal} To keep you from getting hungry again too quickly. * […]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

(160-43 B.C.), Roman philosopher No sane man will dance.

BFN

[BFN] "Bye for now"

BBS

[BBS] "Be back soon", or "bulletin board system/service"

Don Addis

(1935--) U.S. editorial cartoonist Never play cat and mouse games if you're a mouse.

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