hand someone his head
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Possibly an allusion to the story of Salome demanding the head of John the Baptist in a charger.
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hand someone his head (third-person singular simple present hands someone his head, present participle handing someone his head, simple past and past participle handed someone his head)
- To kill, especially by beheading. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (idiomatic, by extension) To destroy; to defeat utterly.