释义 |
turn someone's head, to turn someone's headFig. [for flattery or success] to distract someone; to cause someone not to be sensible. Don't let our praise turn your head. You're not perfect! Her successes had turned her head. She was now quite arrogant.See also: head, turnturn someone's head make someone conceited.See also: head, turnturn someone's head, toTo influence someone’s mind-set, particularly so as to make him or her conceited. Seneca had the idea (and his translator the phrase) almost two thousand years ago (Ad Lucilium): “His head was turned by too great success.”See also: turn |