hang one’s head

(verb) to feel ashamed

Example Sentences:

Mom: Jimmy, did you eat all of the ice-cream?
Jimmy: Yes.
Mom: You should hang your head. That ice-cream was for your father!

The disgraced president hung his head after he was forced to resign.

All of the students were hanging their head when the teacher disciplined them for not doing their homework.

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Similar idioms:

1. beat one’s head against the wall
2. be banging one’s head against the wall
3. hit the nail on the head
4. get one’s head around
5. have one’s head in the clouds
6. blue in the face
7. over one’s head
8. head start
9. head for
10. have a good head on one’s shoulders
11. on thin ice
12. cold as ice