Lose head if not attached

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:32 AM -0500 3/23/04, Damien Hall wrote:
>My version of this is "You'd lose your head if it wasn't screwed on".  I don't
>know whether that's just my family, or a more general feature of British
>English.
>
My mother (born/raised Troy, NY) used that version of it, so it's not
just British.

Larry Horn