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idiomput/lay your head on the block(also put/lay your head on the chopping block)to do or say something, often deliberately, for which you are likely to be blamed or punished or which is likely to make you fail:He's put his head on the block on several occasions by voting against the chairman. Carson wrote a letter to the newspapers supporting the unpopular changes, effectively laying his head on the chopping blockNoteIn the past, criminals who were to be killed as a punishment put their head on a block of wood before it was cut off.
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