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noun
Idioms1.
any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
2.
an aggregate of such filaments, as that covering the human head or forming the coat of most mammals.
3.
a similar fine, filamentous outgrowth from the body of insects, spiders, etc.
4.
Botany. a filamentous outgrowth of the epidermis.
5.
EXPANDcloth made of hair from animals, as camel and alpaca.
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get in someone's hair, Slang. to annoy or bother someone: Their snobbishness gets in my hair.
8.
hair of the dog, Informal. a drink of liquor, supposed to relieve a hangover: Even a hair of the dog didn't help his aching head. Also, hair of the dog that bit one.
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let one's hair down, Informal.
a.
to relax; behave informally: He finally let his hair down and actually cracked a joke.
b.
to speak candidly or frankly; remove or reduce restraints: He let his hair down and told them about his anxieties.
10.
make one's hair stand on end, to strike or fill with horror; terrify: The tales of the jungle made our hair stand on end.
11.
EXPANDsplit hairs, to make unnecessarily fine or petty distinctions: To argue about whether they arrived at two o'clock or at 2:01 is just splitting hairs.
12.
tear one's hair, to manifest extreme anxiety, grief, or anger: He's tearing his hair over the way he was treated by them. Also, tear one's hair out.
13.
to a hair, perfect to the smallest detail; exactly: The reproduction matched the original to a hair.
14.
COLLAPSEwithout turning a hair, without showing the least excitement or emotion. Also, not turn a hair.
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Not turn a hair
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
Origin:
before 900; Middle English heer, Old English hǣr (cognate with Dutch, German haar, Old Norse hār), with vowel perhaps from Middle English haire hair shirt < Old French < Old High German hāria (cognate with Middle English here, Old English hǣre, Old Norse hǣra)
before 900; Middle English heer, Old English hǣr (cognate with Dutch, German haar, Old Norse hār), with vowel perhaps from Middle English haire hair shirt < Old French < Old High German hāria (cognate with Middle English here, Old English hǣre, Old Norse hǣra)
Related forms
hair·like, adjective
de·hair, verb (used with object)
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Word Origin & History
hair
O.E. hær, from P.Gmc. *khæran (cf. O.S., O.N., O.H.G. har, O.Fris. her, Du., Ger. haar "hair"), from PIE *ker(s)- "to bristle" (cf. Lith. serys "bristle"). Modern spelling infl. by O.E. haire "haircloth," from O.Fr. haire, from Frank. *harja. Hairy in slang sense of "difficult" is first recorded
EXPAND1848. Hairbreadth (1561) is said to have been formerly a formal unit of measure equal to one-forty-eighth of an inch. Hairdresser is first recorded 1771; hairdo is 1932, from do (v.). A hairpin turn, etc., is from 1906. A hair-trigger (1830) was originally a secondary trigger in a firearm which sprung free a mechanism (hair) which, when set, allowed the main trigger to be released by very slight force. Hair-raising "exciting" is first attested 1897. To let one's hair down "become familiar" is first recorded 1850. To split hairs "make over-fine distinctions" is first recorded 1652, as to cut the hair. Phrase hair of the dog that bit you (1546), homeopathic remedy, is in Pliny.
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hair (hâr)
n.
Any of the cylindrical, keratinized, often pigmented filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal.
A growth of such filaments, as that forming the coat of an animal or covering the scalp of a human.
One of the fine hairlike processes of a sensory cell.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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