price on one's head

price on one's head
*a price on one's head
a reward for one's capture. (*Typically: get \price on one's head; have \price on one's head; put \price on one's head; place \price on one's head.) •

We captured a thief who had a price on his head, and the sheriff gave us the reward.

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The crook was so mean, he turned in his own brother, who had a price on his head.

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{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./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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