Reply sharply and brusquely to someone:I made some comment and he bit my head off...
‘You too, Dave,’ she replied hesitantly, as if she expected Jill to bite her head off.
‘Yeah the guy bit my head off for it,’ he replied, shrugging his shoulders.
I had so much I wanted to say to her, and it was all I could do to avoid biting her head off when she passed a remark about how long it's been since Bro rang her.