cough head off

cough one's head off

Fig. to cough long and hard. (See also laugh one's head off.) I had the flu. I nearly coughed my head off for two days.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Chimwemwe	chim-WEM-way	Southern African, Chewa
Ju-Won	joo-won	Korean
Cipriano	chee-pree-AH-no (Italian)	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Sebastjan	-	Slovene
Teppo	TEP-po	Finnish
Alfreda	ahl-FRE-dah (Polish, German, Italian)	Polish, German, Italian, English