Idiom of the day :- Heads roll

Usage, examples and definition of the Idiom :-

Alves is realistic. ‘To live together in harmony we can’t tolerate any nonsense,’ he said. while most of Alves’s neighbors understand that, now and then one of them gets awfully silly. That’s when Alves displays his anger and that’s when heads roll ! The expression heads roll means that someone is being punished, in particular because he or she has failed in the performance of a duty. In a job situation, the person can be dismissed or demoted !