In formal usage, you can head in a direction or head toward a destination, but "head" refers just to setting a course (direction of movement). In common usage, though, head to or head over to have come to mean "go to" (referring to the destination, itself, rather than the direction of the destination). Either will work in your sentence, and ...

I am heading to/for/toward(s) the door/car/barbershop. All the above prepositions mean much the same. The Google Ngram Viewer shows that the preposition "for" is used at least ten times more frequently in comparison with the others, the preposition "towards" being used the rarest.

Nov 27, 2017 · One could interpret the simple form to mean that the action never began in the first place. For example, "I was headed to the city before I read the weather report." One could interpret this sentence to mean that the speaker intended to head to the city, but never started his travels because he was dismayed by the weather report.

Feb 28, 2014 · Wikipedia says that "head and tail" might be connected with German Kopf und Zahl (Head and number). In English the word family connected with German Zahl and zählen is to tell, tale, teller (in a bank). But there was a semantic shift in the meaning from to count to narrate. If Wikipedia's view is right then we have a typical case of ...

Apr 22, 2017 · The Jesuit private school my brothers in law attended has a Principal as head of the academic side and a President, a Jesuit priest, as head of the administrative side (note that it also has a Board of Trustees with a Chairman, but that is basically an organization for parents and alumni - the Jesuit order is the owner and ultimate authority).

Aug 5, 2022 · Most likely you are conflating two different expressions on the tip of my tongue and off the top of my head and ending up with on the top of my head. With on on the tip of my tongue you can say you know the answer you just need a bit of a nudge to get it out: “I know the answer, it’s just on the tip of my tongue, give me a few more details ...

I'm afraid I have to disagree here. From my understanding, and a recent article in the Atlantic, derived from the new text Marketplace of the Marvelous: The Strange Origins of Modern Medicine, referring to a psychiatrist as a shrink refers not specifically to head-shrinking tribesmen, but to the field of phrenology, a significantly closer cultural institution to psychiatry.

Jan 20, 2011 · A noggin as a mug was made in Germanic cultures to look like a head. It was a caricature of a head and ugly like a troll's head. So when used to refer to a person's head it has the meaning of the person's head and implies that the person is ugly. Hence, "Use your noggin" and "Got hit in the noggin" both work.

Dec 12, 2013 · [from the cartoon image of a light bulb lighting up above a character's head when he or she has an idea] Related to the concept of light providing an answer, is the noun. illumination "In a moment of illumination" TFD. spiritual …

Mar 10, 2015 · In English, shaking your head means turning it side to side (to the right and left) a few times. It's a rotation around the vertical axis only; the head does not tilt or change its angle relative to the ground (assuming you're standing or sitting straight up). Here's a picture: source. From left to right, these are: Shaking your head