rear one's head (English, verb)
expansion: rear one's head (third-person singular simple present rears one's head, present participle rearing one's head, simple past and past participle reared one's head)
Senses:
glosses: To raise one's head.
tags: literally
glosses: To appear and cause problems or stress, especially at an inopportune time (said of something or [rare] someone that is undesirable or unwelcome).
tags: idiomatic
Forms:
form: rears one's head
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rearing one's head
tags: participle
present
form: reared one's head
tags: participle
past
form: reared one's head
tags: past
form: rear one's ugly head
tags: alternative