Meaning of go to someone's head | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To strongly affect a person, especially to the detriment of his or her senses or mental faculties.
   idiomatic
2. To cloud one's thinking, as do alcohol and many drugs.
   idiomatic
3. To greatly raise one's conception of their social status or accomplishments.
   idiomatic

Examples

“That one glass has gone to my head, that is, touched my brain; slightly, to be sure, but enough to weaken my will.”

“Moreover, Dolores' promise had gone to my head like new wine.”

“Oh, red, red wine / She goes to my head / The blue cigarette / And your Italian bed”

“I'm gonna start a revolution from my bed / 'Cause you said the brains I had went to my head”

“For I am a man of many sorrows. Yet there is no necessity for me to sit sobbing and sighing in someone else's house. Unremitting grief is tiresome and I'm afraid some of your maids or you yourself might lose patience with me and conclude it was the wine that had gone to my head and released this flood of tears.”

“He caught the biggest fish on record and it really went to his head.”

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