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 Head.Head and Ears. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Head Shaved (Get your).
 
You are a dotard. Go and get your head shaved like other lunatics. (See BATH.)   1
       
“Thou thinkst that monarchs never can act ill,
Get thy head shaved, poor fool, or think so still.”
       
Peter Pindar: Ode Upon Ode.
 


 Head.Head and Ears. 

 
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