put our/your/their heads together

put our/your/their heads together

To work together to come up with an idea or solution. If the two of you put your heads together, I'm confident you'll figure out a workable solution. Don't worry, we're putting our heads together to come up with a catchier slogan right now.See also: head, put, together

put people's heads together

to join together with someone to confer. Let's put our heads together and come up with a solution to this problem. Mary and Ted put their heads together, but failed to provide anything new.See also: head, put, together

put our heads together

Also, put their heads together. Discuss or plan something among ourselves (or themselves), as in Let's put our heads together and figure out what we can give him for his birthday. This idiom, alluding to combining mental forces, originated in the late 1300s as lay our heads together and acquired its current form in the second half of the 1800s. See also: head, put, together

put your heads together

If people put their heads together, they try to solve a problem together. If there's a problem, we all just sit down, put our heads together and figure it out.See also: head, put, together

put your heads together

consult and work together.See also: head, put, together

put your, their, etc. ˈheads together

(informal) think about or discuss something as a group: If we all put our heads together, we might find a way to solve the problem.See also: head, put, together