bang some heads together

present singular third person bangs some heads together · participle present banging some heads together · participle past banged some heads together · past banged some heads together

1. idiomaticAttempt to get results from a previously ineffectual or argumentative group, typically by coercion or force.

   We need to bang some heads together to get the plan finished before the deadline.

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   Your role as a chieftain is to bring peace to your hall, and sometimes it is going to mean banging some heads together, other times it is going to require some skilful diplomacy.

   2003 08, Nick Farrell, Magical Pathworking: Techniques of Active Imagination, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 81

   What we need is somebody to bang some heads together and make sure that the funding, the infrastructure and the direction are there to promote the kind of excellence in research that we would like.

   2005 July 21, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Science and Technology Committee, Ageing: Scientific Aspects; 1st Report of Session 2005-06, The Stationery Office, →ISBN, page 291

   The Bosnian War ended during the Clinton administration when Richard Holbrooke banged some heads together in Dayton, Ohio.

   2014 August 19, H.D.S. Greenway, Foreign Correspondent: A Memoir, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN