Idiom #20: Get your head in the game

Get your head in the game

Meaning: To concentrate/focus.

Example:

• Aiko: Hey, Mark let's play basketball again!
• Mark: Ok, but I have to teach class in 15 minutes.

5 minutes later: Mark: 5 points, Aiko: 56 points

• Aiko: Come on Mark! Get your head in the game!
• Mark: I'm trying!
• Aiko: You have to stop worrying about class.
• Mark: Ok...

a dog concentrating very hard

Origin: This is a sports idiom, but of course you can use it outside of sports. If you are playing a basketball game, don't think about school, or cute girls/boys, or dinner. If you do, your body is in the game, but your mind (your head) is somewhere else.

You can see this idiom used in the video below!

High School Musical 1

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