out of your head

Meaning

1. Editorial80% of films

   to stop thinking about someone or something, or to dismiss an idea from your mind

In the movies · 37

• He has flipped his wig, that he's out of his head, that he's a lousy surgeon.M*A*S*H1970
• Sometimes I think he's going plumb out of his head.Red River1948
• I began to ask myself if I wasn't out of my head entirely.The Lady from Shanghai1947
• Get out of your head, Rick.Nightcrawler2014
• I'd pull your eyes out of your head...Birdman or2014
• You gotta get that fantasy out of your head.Escape Room: Tournament of Champions2021
• Your tongue was hangin' out of your head, and you was swoonin'.The Sandlot1993
• They, like, jump right out of your head. You know that?Do the Right Thing1989

Learn it in full scenes

• M*A*S*H1970
  • Hawkeye and Duke Report for Duty
  • Mulcahy Teaches Ho-Jon to Read
  • Hawkeye and Duke Want the Chaplain Out
• Do the Right Thing1989
  • Love Daddy Wakes the Block
  • Morning Shift at Sal's Pizzeria
  • Da Mayor Sweeps and Gets Scolded

From the same entry

• a head
• bang your heads together
• be banging, your head against a brick wall
• be head and shoulders above
• bite head off
• bring to a head
• bury your head in the sand
• can't make head nor tail of
• do head in
• do standing on your head
• from head to foot
• get your head down

More idioms

• for once
• feel sorry for yourself
• give a hard time
• the minute
• a train of thought
• come to terms with
• hit the nail on the head
• a change of heart
• god knows
• lose touch
• be out of touch
• have back