词汇 | lose one-s head |
词源 | lose one’s head; lose it. The first expression probably gave birth to the current lose it, meaning “to lose one’s sanity” for a time or permanently. To lose one’s head means essentially the same, “to lose one’s rationality,” and dates back to a similar French phrase of the early 19th century. |
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