Meaning of King Charles' head | Babel Free

Definitions

An obsession, especially one that keeps intruding irrelevantly into other matters.

Examples

“'I can't make it out,' said Mr. Dick, shaking his head. 'There's something wrong, somewhere. However, it was very soon after the mistake was made of putting some of the trouble out of King Charles's head into my head, that the man first came. I was walking out with Miss Trotwood after tea, just at dark, and there he was, close to our house.'”

“Upton Sinclair* is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may; or, by this time, try though he doesn't.”

“It is characteristic of Cobbett that he could always be relied on to produce conjuror-like from any subject one of his many King Charles' heads.”

“'He wasn't prepared to give it more credence -- than, say, the Melpham burial. He rejected the simile with annoyance. It was becoming a King Charles's head.'”

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