Meaning: head-shrinker

n.
a physician who specializes in psychiatrya savage who cuts off and preserves the heads of enemies as trophies

shrink Idiom, Proverb

head shrinker

a psychiatrist The man was told to go and see a head shrinker after he threatened the woman in the store several times.

no shrinking violet

a bold woman, not a timid woman Barb will defend her rights. She's no shrinking violet.

shrink/head shrink

psychiatrist, therapist If I can't manage my personal life, I can always visit a shrink.

shrinking violet

(See no shrinking violet)

headshrinker

n., slang, informal A psychoanalyst, also called a shrink. Forrester is falling apart; his family physician sent him to a head shrinker (to a shrink).

shrinking violet, a

shrinking violet, a
An extremely shy person, as in She was a shrinking violet until she went away to college. This metaphoric idiom refers to the flower, but the precise allusion is unclear, since violets thrive under a variety of conditions and often are considered a garden weed. [Early 1900s]

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