This rather common verb phrase is used referring to an angry person overreacting to a trifling matter, specifically to something that someone has said or done.
The last instance of "bite someone's head off" I came across was recently (late 2006), in the third season of an exhilarating Warner Bros. sitcom created by Chuck Lorre, “Two and a half Men”, which I have the pleasure to subtitle in French for the channel Canal Plus. In the ninth episode, entitled “Madame and her special friend”, the uptight Alan Harper (starred by the outrageously funny John Cryer) shouts in frustration at his whimsical brother Charlie (both a homonymous clone of and an eponymous role for Charlie Sheen). The reason for this fit of anger is that Charlie does not keep his promise to “give it a rest” on the jokes his makes about Norma (starred by Chloris Leachman, who needs not be introduced), Alan’s elderly date (hence the title). Charlie, judging that his sibling makes yet again a mountain out of an anthill, retorts:
“You don’t have to bite my head off !”.
Wether in or out of this context, the exaggerated therefore comical catch phrase may be thus paraphrased: “I do not deserve such a harsh punishment for such a petty mistake !”. I hope this explanation will be of any help to you.
“You don’t have to bite my head off !”.
Wether in or out of this context, the exaggerated therefore comical catch phrase may be thus paraphrased: “I do not deserve such a harsh punishment for such a petty mistake !”. I hope this explanation will be of any help to you.
by Nicolas Auffret, freelance dubber and subtitler November 9, 2006
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2. When you're smoking out of a pipe, joint, blunt, etc. and you burn your lip/ tongue.
2. When you're smoking out of a pipe, joint, blunt, etc. and you burn your lip/ tongue.
Example 1:
Friend 1: "Damn dude, I was talking to this one chick and I called her by my ex-girlfriends name!" Friend 2: "Damn, you really bit the flame."
Example 2:
"Watch that pipe. It gets really hot, wouldn't want you to bite the flame.
Friend 1: "Damn dude, I was talking to this one chick and I called her by my ex-girlfriends name!" Friend 2: "Damn, you really bit the flame."
Example 2:
"Watch that pipe. It gets really hot, wouldn't want you to bite the flame.
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Mint: is he gonna bite the bucket and just do it
Charlie: did you just say "bite the bucket"?
Mint: yeah, why is this strange?
Charlie: mint, the expression is "bite the bullet".
Mint: oh shit ive been saying bucket for like 21 years now
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Mint: yeah, why is this strange?
Charlie: mint, the expression is "bite the bullet".
Mint: oh shit ive been saying bucket for like 21 years now
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Hurting yourself by, hitting yourself, digging your nails into yourself, and pinching yourself as ways to cope because you feel as if people well call you names (attention whore, freak, fake, ect.)
Hurting yourself by, hitting yourself, digging your nails into yourself, and pinching yourself as ways to cope because you feel as if people well call you names (attention whore, freak, fake, ect.)
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Get the Bite me mug.Some old fuck was yelling at me for no reason, so I walked past hi, gave him the finger and yelled, "Ahhh, bite my ass, you peckerwood son-of-a-bitch!"
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