rear one's ugly head

present singular third person rears one's ugly head · participle present rearing one's ugly head · participle past reared one's ugly head · past reared one's ugly head

1. alternativeAlternative form of rear one's head.

   Where regionalism rears its ugly head, it should be stomped upon immediately and decisively by the administration so as to leave no doubt that such tendency will never be tolerated.

   2010 September 8, “Regionalism and its ugly head”, in The National, Port Moresby

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   Knowing the signs of stimulant addiction will help you determine if you or somebody else in your life is dealing with this problem. If it becomes serious enough, a variety of signs and symptoms will rear their ugly head.

   2014 December 15, “Stimulants Addiction Signs”, in Narcotics.com, Narcotics Anonymous

   From this point forward, Amelia was going to be the perfect bride. The perfect daughter. The perfect princess. Why, oh why, did Princess Naughty have to rear her ugly head every time Amelia thought she had her life on track?

   2017 November 13, Teri Wilson, Royally Wed, Pocket Star, →ISBN, page 130

   This was a fitting end to their presidency. But predictably, Hillary would rear her ugly head again with later scandals over bribery at the Clinton Foundation, […] not to mention Benghazi and her use of an unsecure private email server while she was Obama's secretary of state.

   2020 October 27, Larry Klayman, It Takes a Revolution: Forget the Scandal Industry!, Post Hill Press, →ISBN, page 34