hand over head
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English[edit]
Adverb[edit]
hand over head (not comparable)
- (obsolete, idiomatic) Negligently; rashly; without seeing what one does.
- a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a VVarre vvith Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany VVorks of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC:
- the facility of the titles, which hand - over - head have served their turn