price\ on\ one's\ head

price\ on\ one's\ head
n. phr.
Reward offered to anyone who catches a thief or a murderer.

The hotel manager learned that the quiet man taken from his room by the police was a murderer with a price on his head.


Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". . 1997.

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