Can "put their heads together" be used this literally?
A few of the hostages had put their heads together.
Hostage 1: How many do you count?
Hostage 2: They're down to six.
Hostage 3: If we attack together we can take them.
The hostages are already standing very close together, so I thought "put their heads together" would seem more precise than "have gathered together" or "have drawn together".
1) Can I write "had put their heads together" here or is it never used this literally?
2) Is the dialog correct?
Top answer
Idiomatically, "put one's heads together" means to combine thoughts or ideas so as to jointly decide or figure out something. This is how I would understood it in your context. The expression can be used literally, to describe actual physical contact between heads, but this needs a context in which physical contact between heads is clearly likely to be happening.
- Idiomatically, "put one's heads together" means to combine thoughts or ideas so as to jointly decide or figure out something.
- This is how I would understood it in your context.
- The expression can be used literally, to describe actual physical contact between heads, but this needs a context in which physical contact between heads is clearly likely to be happening.
- The dialogue is OK.
- Consider whether you want a comma after "together".
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Idiomatically, "put one's heads together" means to combine thoughts or ideas so as to jointly decide or figure out something. This is how I would understood it in your context. The expression can be used literally, to describe actual physical contact between heads, but this needs a context in which physical contact between heads is clearly likely to be happening.
The dialogue is OK. Con
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