hand someone their head

• hand someone their head on a plate
• hand someone their head on a platter

Possibly an allusion to the story of Salome demanding the head of John the Baptist in a charger.

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hand someone their head (third-person singular simple present hands someone their head, present participle handing someone their head, simple past and past participle handed someone their head)

1. To kill, especially by beheading. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. (idiomatic, by extension) To destroy; to defeat utterly.

• give someone their head