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If you had your head handed to you by someone, that someone figuratively cut it off with his/her words.

The question was "give someone his head" not "hand someone their head." To give someone his head means to allow them to do what they want to do. The image is from horse-riding, where you loosen the reins and "give" the horse control over his head, which allows the horse to speed up as it wants to do.

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