make head swim



make someone's head swim

 and make someone's head spin 
1. Fig. to make someone dizzy or disoriented. Riding the merry-go-round makes my head spin. Breathing the gas made my head swim.
2. Fig. to confuse or overwhelm someone. All these numbers make my head swim. The physics lecture made my head spin.
See also: head, make, swim

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
HermanniHER-mahn-neeFinnish
Sebastianze-BAHS-tee-ahn (German), sə-BAS-chən (English), se-BAHS-tyahn (Polish), SE-bahs-tee-ahn (Finnish)German, English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Polish, Finnish, Romanian
Kibwe-Eastern African, Swahili
Gopinath-Tamil, Indian, Malayalam
AudreaAWD-ree-əEnglish (Rare)
Petronius-Ancient Roman