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denormster | 20:55 Sat 25th Aug 2007 | Phrases & Sayings
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One explanation is that it was a Hitlerism ..he said in 1930...
"If our movement is victorious there will be a revolutionary tribunal which will punish the crimes of November 1918. Then decapitated heads will roll in the sand."

Although it can be applied generally to any decapitation ..and we are famed for chopping off peoples heads !

It just an idiom which means people will be in deep trouble if something they should have done correctly goes wrong... with dire repercussions !
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It's more likely to refer to the French Revolution, in historical terms anyway. "If I don't get my own way...a 'revolution' will occur."
The expression is similar to "THERE'LL BE WIGS ON THE GREEN" or "There will be blood and hair on the walls."

http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/8/mes sages/1096.html
From the French - guillotined people's head literally rolled!!!

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