go over sb's head
to speak to or ask permission from someone who has more authority than the person who you would normally go to in that situation:
Amanda was refusing to give me the week off so I went over her head and spoke to the boss.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making appeals & requests
- a cry for help idiom
- appellate
- application
- ask for sb
- beseech
- besiege
- besought
- bum
- cri de coeur
- crowdsource
- freeloader
- gateway
- hit
- hit sb up
- I'll thank you to do sth idiom
- pester
- petition
- request
- scrounge
- sponge
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