price on someone's head

短语

发音

AU

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A compensation for capturing or killing someone, especially a criminal.

    习语

    The police put a price on his head after he killed four innocent women.

词源

From the earlier punishment of beheading criminals. The usage of this idiom began in the mid-1700s.

来源：wiktionary