get (something) through (someone's) head
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To make someone or oneself acknowledge, accept, or understand something. Look, just get it through your head: we're moving, and there's nothing that's going to change that now. I don't know how else to get it through her head that I want to break up.
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get through one's head
Understand, believe, or be convinced. For example, Bill cannot get it through his head that John is moving out.
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- leave (someone, something, or oneself) (wide) open for (something)
- leave oneself wide open for
- leave open
- leave yourself wide open to something
- leave (someone, something, or oneself) (wide) open to (something)
- reproach (someone or something) with (something)
- reproach with
- keep in sight
- keep sight of (someone or something)
- keep sight of somebody/something