You haven't even switched the thing on. Come on, Jamie, use your loaf!
New idioms dictionary. 2014.
use your loaf — british informal old fashioned phrase to think carefully about something Thesaurus: to think carefully or a lot about thingssynonym Main entry: loaf * * * use your ˈhead idiom (BrE also … Useful english dictionary
use your loaf — British informal old fashioned to think carefully about something … English dictionary
use your head — phrase to think carefully in order to understand something or to avoid making a mistake Use your head: why would he say something like that if he was guilty? Thesaurus: to think carefully or a lot about thingssynonym Main entry: use * * * use… … Useful english dictionary
Use loaf. — Use (your) loaf. British & Australian, old fashioned if you tell someone to use their loaf, you are telling them in a slightly angry way that they should think more carefully about what they are doing. You haven t even switched the thing on. Come … New idioms dictionary
Loaf — A loaf is a shaped, usually rounded or oblong, mass of food. It may refer to a bread or other moulded foods, such as meatloaf. [American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed, 2003.] The term loaf sometimes refers to head from the… … Wikipedia
loaf — loaf1 /lohf/, n., pl. loaves /lohvz/. 1. a portion of bread or cake baked in a mass, usually oblong with a rounded top. 2. a shaped or molded mass of food, as of sugar or chopped meat: a veal loaf. 3. Brit. a. the rounded head of a cabbage,… … Universalium
loaf — I UK [ləʊf] / US [loʊf] noun [countable] Word forms loaf : singular loaf plural loaves UK [ləʊvz] / US [loʊvz] * bread in a long, round, or square shape that you cut into slices (= thin flat pieces) for eating. A sliced loaf has been cut into… … English dictionary
loaf — loaf1 [ləuf US louf] n plural loaves [ləuvz US louvz] [: Old English; Origin: hlaf] 1.) bread that is shaped and baked in one piece and can be cut into ↑slice s ▪ a loaf of bread white/wholemeal/granary etc loaf BrE a sliced loaf … Dictionary of contemporary English
loaf — 1. n. (pl. loaves) 1 a portion of baked bread, usu. of a standard size or shape. 2 a quantity of other food formed into a particular shape (sugar loaf; meat loaf). 3 sl. the head, esp. as a source of common sense (use your loaf). Phrases and… … Useful english dictionary
loaf — 1 noun plural loaves, (C) 1 bread that is shaped and baked in one piece and can be cut into slices: a loaf of bread 2 meat/nut loaf meat or nuts that have been cut very finely, pressed together, and baked 3 use your loaf BrE old fashioned used to … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
