in one's head

Language: en

Meaning: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seein,‎one's,‎head.; (idiomatic,of information, a plan, etc.)Within one'sintellect,memory, ormind.2013August 10,Michael Calvin, “Sport: Scouting system that reveals David Moyes' mind”, inIndependent, UK, retrieved9 December 2106:The old-school way, with the chief scout having it allin his head, gave no continuity. If he gets run over by a bus he takes all the knowledge with him.1996March 24,Frank Bruni, “The Grunge American Novel”, inNew York Times, retrieved9 December 2106:"I have actually gotten to revisit,in my head, all the museums I've ever gone to."; (idiomatic,of a false belief,delusion, etc.)Within one'simagination; without basis inreality.1993November 28, John Schwartz, “Caution: Children at play on information highway”, inWashington Post, retrieved9 December 2106:"Kids disappear into imaginary relationships all the time" . . . but "usually there's a limit to how far that imaginary relationship can go, because it's allin their head."2006October 22,Pam Belluck, “Living With Love, Chaos and Haley”, inNew York Times, retrieved9 December 2106:When a neurologist ruled out medical causes like Lyme disease, Ms. Abaspour recalled, her husband said, “I think we should just give her a placebo — it’s allin her head.”2014April 5, Gwilym Mumford, “True Detective recap: season one, episode seven”, inGuardian, UK, retrieved9 December 2106:The tape was the piece of evidence that assured Cohle that this grand conspiracy wasn't allin his head.; (idiomatic,mathematics,of performing a calculation)Mentally.1902,Joseph Conrad, chapter 5, inThe End of the Tether:Captain Whalley, who seemed lost in a mental effort as of doing a sumin his head, gave a slight start.; (idiomatic)Anxiousdue tooverthinkingan issue.

Examples:Note: the examples for non latin scripts have a high likelihood of mistakes, we do not own any of this data and it is sourced from Wiktionary, the NLLB database and Opensubtitles. Please help us improve this by contributing correct examples. We will be working to fix this issue over time however it is a bigger issue due to the the difficulties in dealing with non latin scripts and grammatical structures(non-romantic/european languages have lower resources as well ).

Validation Count: 0

Sourced from Wiktionary