"bite someone's head off" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-bite someone's head off.ogg [Australia] Forms: bites someone's head off [present, singular, third-person], biting someone's head off [participle, present], bit someone's head off [past], bitten someone's head off [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|bite<,,bit,bitten> someone's head off}} bite someone's head off (third-person singular simple present bites someone's head off, present participle biting someone's head off, simple past bit someone's head off, past participle bitten someone's head off)
  1. (idiomatic, informal) To severely berate someone. Tags: idiomatic, informal Synonyms: snap someone's head off, take someone's head off Translations (to severly berate someone): jmdn. den Kopf abreißen [idiomatic] (German)

Inflected forms

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