lose one's head

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• /luːz wʌnz hɛd/
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19 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Finnish: menettää päänsä — to suffer decapitation
• Armenian: գլուխը կորցնել (gluxə korcʻnel) — to behave irrationally or lose self-control
• Finnish: mennä sekaisin — to behave irrationally or lose self-control
• Finnish: seota — to behave irrationally or lose self-control
• French: perdre la tête — to behave irrationally or lose self-control
• German: den Kopf verlieren — to behave irrationally or lose self-control
• Hungarian: elveszti a fejét — to behave irrationally or lose self-control
• Italian: perdere la testa — to behave irrationally or lose self-control
• Norwegian Bokmål: miste hodet — to behave irrationally or lose self-control
• Occitan: pèrder lo cap — to behave irrationally or lose self-control
• Polish: tracić głowę — to behave irrationally or lose self-control
• Polish: stracić głowę — to behave irrationally or lose self-control
• Portuguese: perder a cabeça — to behave irrationally or lose self-control
• Russian: теря́ть го́лову (terjátʹ gólovu) — to behave irrationally or lose self-control
• Russian: потеря́ть го́лову (poterjátʹ gólovu) — to behave irrationally or lose self-control
• Spanish: perder la cabeza — to behave irrationally or lose self-control
• Turkish: aklını kaçırmak — to behave irrationally or lose self-control
• Turkish: aklını yitirmek — to behave irrationally or lose self-control
• Finnish: saada potkut — to be dismissed from a job