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Meaning: (idiomatic)To stronglyaffecta person, especially to thedetrimentof his or her senses ormentalfaculties.To cloud one's thinking, as doalcoholand manydrugs.1886,John Bartholomew Gough,Lyman Abbott,Platform Echos; or, Living Truths for Head and Heart:That one glass hasgone to my head, that is, touched my brain; slightly, to be sure, but enough to weaken my will.1903,Jerome K. Jerome,Robert Barr, Arthur Lawrence,Sidney Sime, editors,The Idler: an illustrated monthly magazine, volume22:Moreover, Dolores' promise hadgone to my headlike new wine.1982,Ryuichi Sakamoto,Robin Scott, “Left Bank”, inThe Arrangement:Oh, red, red wine / Shegoes to my head/ The blue cigarette / And your Italian bed1996, “Don't Look Back in Anger”, in(What's the Story) Morning Glory?, performed byOasis:I'm gonna start a revolution from my bed / 'Cause you said the brains I hadwent to my head2003, Emile Victor Rieu, D. Christopher H. Rieu, transl.,The Odyssey, translation of original byHomer:For I am a man of many sorrows. Yet there is no necessity for me to sit sobbing and sighing in someone else's house. Unremitting grief is tiresome and I'm afraid some of your maids or you yourself might lose patience with me and conclude it was the wine that hadgone to my headand released this flood of tears.To greatly raise one's conception of theirsocial statusoraccomplishments.He caught the biggest fish on record and it reallywent to his head.
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