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#32 (permalink) Tue Apr 15, 2008 13:27 pm gone out of my head vs. gone out of my brain |
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Hmm.. So it's worse than I expected :D
Why don't you guys kiss and make up? :lol:
(By the way, 'kiss and make up' is a fixed idiom, and I have used it as such.) _________________ Non-native speaker of English
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#33 (permalink) Tue Apr 15, 2008 15:08 pm gone out of my head vs. gone out of my brain |
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| Why don't you guys kiss and make up? :lol: |
Fat chance of that happening anytime soon. The chances of that happening are somewhat slimmer than pigs flying. 8) . _________________ "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." ~ Abraham Lincoln |
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Yankee I'm a Communicator ;-)

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#34 (permalink) Wed Apr 30, 2008 17:04 pm gone out of my head vs. gone out of my brain |
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| i know i am a late arrival to this topic, but "gone out of my head" seems to be the phrase that i have always heard. i have lived in america for almost all of my life, with stops in morocco and belgium, and i have never heard the phrase "gone out of my brain". that doesn't mean that it doesn't exist or is incorrect, but i have never seen or heard it. |
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#35 (permalink) Wed Apr 30, 2008 17:47 pm gone out of my head vs. gone out of my brain |
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Hi Adrian
Is it safe to assume that you know "go out of my head" as a fixed idiom that means "go crazy"?
Would you use that same idiom to say that "the name of something has gone crazy"? That would not be very typical, would it?
My last question is this: Does "The name of the movie is gone out of my head" mean the same thing as "The name of the movie has gone crazy"?
Don't worry. I already know what your answer will be. :wink: . _________________ "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." ~ Abraham Lincoln |
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Yankee I'm a Communicator ;-)

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#36 (permalink) Wed Apr 30, 2008 18:29 pm gone out of my head vs. gone out of my brain |
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Hi,
What about this - Charles 1st lost his head twice - once when he heard he was going to be executed and the second time was when he had his head cut off. Then the executioner lost it because the people were very angry. They lost it too. Then they found it lying in the basket and someone said: What a loser!
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#37 (permalink) Wed Apr 30, 2008 18:34 pm gone out of my head vs. gone out of my brain |
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. Very funny. :lol:
Now, how about fixing the test at long last, Alan? :wink: . _________________ "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." ~ Abraham Lincoln |
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Yankee I'm a Communicator ;-)

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#38 (permalink) Wed Apr 30, 2008 23:09 pm gone out of my head vs. gone out of my brain |
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Just to remind you, the test has nothing to do with the fixed expression "out of one's head/mind" (insane/crazy). This is the mini-dialog from the test:
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Mary: Do you know what the film was called? Pete: No, that's just it. It's completely gone out of my head. |
In other words, the name of the film is apparently no longer present in poor old Pete's head, brain, noggin, mind, memory, memory bank, gray matter, noodle, skull, cranium, etc.
The name of the film has not gone insane or crazy. Instead, the name of the film has vanished from Pete's brain, leaving him (and probably more than a few forum members) frustrated and bewildered as to why and how it's possible for a piece of information to leave poor old Pete's head but not his brain. :wink:
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