have one's head screwed on right

English

Verb

have one's head screwed on right (third-person singular simple present has one's head screwed on right, present participle having one's head screwed on right, simple past and past participle had one's head screwed on right)

1. Alternative form of have one's head screwed on
   • 1983 August 20, Larry Goldsmith, quoting Gerry Studds, “On the Hill and Out of the Closet”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 6, page 3:

     I think that while I suspect that any relationship between people of widely divergent ages has built into it by definition even more difficulties than the average relationship does — which is saying something — if one has one's head screwed on right, one will approach such a situation with caution for precisely those reasons.