It's a way of describing that light-headed feeling you get when you are sick or injured or in shock. "Swam" gives you the image of your head floating around, not attached to your body, which is the way it feels sometimes.
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∙ 8y agoThe head person.
The idiom "keep your head in the clouds" means someone who is unrealistic or impractical in their thinking, often dreaming or imagining things that are not grounded in reality. It suggests that the person is not paying attention to practical matters and is more focused on daydreaming or fantasizing.
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An idiom is something that does not mean what the phrase says literally, so yes. You can't actually laugh your head off.
"Dive in head first" is to rush into a situation without thinking.
He swam in the sea of diamonds
Keep an idea in ones head to act on it later.
To turn completely around and head back in the direction you came from.
If used as an idiom, it usually means that you are confused about something. The image is of you scratching your head to try to think better.
SWAM is the past tense of the verb "to swim". For example, "I swam ten laps of the pool this morning".
"Your head is going to explode" IS an idiom. It means you have too much to think about.
A very severe headache, as if an imaginary axe is "splitting your head in two".