Your head is in the clouds

The Japanese word for "head" is "atama." It can mean everything from the thing attached to your neck, to brain, mind, intellect, leader, top, idea, hair, point of view, consideration, and its also the counter word for large mammals.

I am such a word nerd, that I am completely fascinated with how these phrases are put together with the root word for head. Particularly the word for telling somebody off without hearing his/her side of story; I mean, I do this like twice a day, at least. I wonder if it really means, "to completely lose your head AND lose your face at the same time?"

atamauchi 頭打ち
reach the peak
(So for example, atamauchi is actually a compound word of head + house. So what does this really mean? From the mountain top, its like your house it on top of the world, and your head is the closest thing to the sky? This could get really deep.)

atamagonashi 頭ごなし
tell somebody off without hearing his/her side of story (unsparingly, categorically)

atamadekkachi 頭でっかち
top-heavy

atama ga agaranai
頭が上がらない
to feel inferior, to lose one's nerve (the head connect: cannot hold up one's head to someone)

atama ga itai
頭が痛い
to be worried (literally means to feel pain in your head)

atama ga ippai 頭がいっぱい
to be occupied with a certain thing

atama ga katai 頭が固い
to be stubborn

atama ga kireru 頭が切れる
to be smart

atama ga sagaru 頭が下がる
to respect, to take one's hat off

atama ga hikui 頭が低い
to be modest

atama ga furui 頭が古い
old-fashioned

atama ni ireru あたまがにいれる
to put into one's head

atama ni kuru 頭に来る
to get mad

atama ni kobiritsuku 頭にこびりつく
not to be able to forget

atama ni chi ga noboru 頭に血が上る
to get excited

atama o kakaeru 頭をかかえる
to be worried

atama o kirikaeru 頭を切り替える
to change one's way of thinking

atama o hiyasu 頭を冷やす
to cool one's head

atama o motageru 頭をもたげる
to raise one's head Atama kasushite shiri kakusazu 頭隠して尻隠さず
Hiding just a part of it, and thinking it hasn't been noticed.

Atama dekkachi shiri tsubomi 頭でっかち尻つぼみ
To go from the sublime to the ridiculous. The mountains have brought forth a mouse.