a player who controls play along the boards In the 1970s Doug was chairman of the boards for the Hawks.
curl your hair
shock you, disgust you The man described the accident. It was enough to curl your hair!
fair-haired boy
favorite boy, favorite man He's the fair-haired boy in this office. They think he's perfect.
get in your hair
(See in your hair)
get out of your hair
leave, not bother you, get lost "Let me ask one more question; then I'll get out of your hair."
grab a chair
sit down, have a seat, take a load off your feet "After I introduced everybody, I said, ""Grab a chair and sit down."""
hair off the dog that bit you
remedy that uses the cause, fight fire with fire The theory of penicillin is to use the hair off the dog that bit you.
hair stand on end
become frightened or afraid of something My hair stood on end when I saw the aftermath of the automobile accident.
hair stands on end
the hair of one's head rises because of fright My hair stood on end when I saw the large dog run out and begin to bark at me.
hairbrain
not sensible, irrational, crazy, kooky Eric is talking about a hairbrain plan to train ants as employees.
hairdo
hairstyle, coiffure Did you see Eileen's hairdo? She looks lovely in tight curls.
have a chair
please sit down on a chair, have a seat """Please have a chair,"" my aunt said, and the man sat down."
haven't seen hide nor hair
have not seen a person, have seen no sign of him We haven't seen hide nor hair of Jack since he borrowed $1000.
hide nor hair
(See haven't seen hide nor hair)
in your hair
bothering you, bugging you If you have too many kids in a class, they get in your hair.
kiss curls (hair style)
flat curls on the forehead or in front of the ears Teddi can't go out until her kiss curls are dry.
make your hair stand on end
cause you to be afraid, petrified, scared stiff Strange sounds began coming from the closet. It was enough to make your hair stand on end.
musical chairs
the transfer of a number of officers in an organization into different jobs - especially each other
out of my hair
not bothering me, not a problem for me Next week the kids will be back at school - out of Mom's hair.
see hide nor hair
not see a person because he has gone You won't see hide nor hair of him after he borrows money.
split hairs
make unnecessary distinctions He makes a lot of good points but he also has a tendency to split hairs and waste a lot of our time.
Angel Hair
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bad hair day
1. a day when one is unable to arrange one's hair into a satisfactory and pleasing style 2. used figuratively for a problematic and difficult day
deuce of haircuts
two weeks
hang by a hair/a thread
depend on a very small thing;be in doubt千钧一发;处于紧急关头;安危未定 He has lost so much blood that his life hangs by a thread.他失血过多,生命垂危。 For three days he was so sick that his life hung by a thread.他病危,3天,真是命若游丝。 His life hung by a hair,but the doctors managed to revive him.他生命垂危,但医生们设法把他救了过来。
hang by a hair thread
depend on a very small thing;be in doubt千钧一发;处于紧急关头;安危未定 He has lost so much blood that his life hangs by a thread.他失血过多,生命垂危。 For three days he was so sick that his life hung by a thread.他病危,3天,真是命若游丝。 His life hung by a hair,but the doctors managed to revive him.他生命垂危,但医生们设法把他救了过来。
out of sb's hair
rid of as a nuisance摆脱;甩开烦恼 Harry got the children out of his hair so he could do some reading.哈里摆脱了孩子们的纠缠,可以读点东西了。
take a chair
sit down 坐下 After she had taken a chair,we started to watch TV.她坐下来以后我们就开始看电视。
tear one's hair
Idiom(s): tear one's hair (out)
Theme: ANGER - RELEASE
to be anxious, frustrated, or angry. • I was so nervous, I was about to tear my hair. • I had better get home. My parents will be tearing their hair out.
play first chair
Idiom(s): play first chair
Theme: LEADERSHIP
to act as a leader. • I need to get this job done. Who plays first chair around here? • You re not the boss! You don t play first chair.
part one's hair
Idiom(s): part one's hair
Theme: PROXIMITY
to come very close to someone. (Informal.) • That plane flew so low that it nearly parted my hair. • He punched at me and missed. He only parted my hair.
neither hide nor hair
Idiom(s): neither hide nor hair
Theme: NOTHING
no sign or indication (of someone or something). (Fixed order.) • We could find neither hide nor hair of him. I don't know where he is. • There has been no one here—neither hide nor hair—for the last three days.
make one's hair stand on end
Idiom(s): make one's hair stand on end
Theme: FRIGHT
to cause someone to be very frightened. (Informal.) • The horrible scream made my hair stand on end. • The ghost story made our hair stand on end.
let one's hair down
Idiom(s): let one's hair down
Theme: FRANKNESS
to become more intimate and begin to speak frankly. (Informal.) • Come on, Jane, let your hair down and tell me all about it. • I have a problem. Do you mind if I let down my hair?
hang by a hair
Idiom(s): hang by a hair AND hang by a thread
Theme: CERTAINTY - LACKING
to be in an uncertain position; to depend on something very insubstantial. • Your whole argument is hanging by a thread. • John isn't failing geometry, but he's just hanging by a hair.
hair of the dog that bit one
Idiom(s): hair of the dog that bit one
Theme: DRINKING
a drink of liquor taken when one has a hangover; a drink of liquor taken when one is recovering from drinking too much liquor. (Informal.) • Oh, I'm miserable. I need some of the hair of the dog that bit me. • That's some hangover you've got there, Bob. Here, drink this. It's some of the hair of the dog that bit you.
give sb gray hairs
Idiom(s): give sb gray hair(s)
Theme: FRUSTRATION
to cause someone's hair to turn gray from stress or frustration. • My three teenage boys are giving me gray hair. • Your behavior is giving me gray hairs.
get in one's hair
Idiom(s): get in one's hair
Theme: ANNOYANCE
to bother or irritate someone. • Billy is always getting in his mother's hair. • I wish you'd stop getting in my hair.
get gray hairs
Idiom(s): get gray hair(s)
Theme: ANXIETY
to have one's hair turn gray from stress or frustration. • I'm getting gray hair because I have three teenage boys. • Oh, Tom, stop it! I'm going to get gray hairs. • I have gray hairs from raising four kids.
curl one's hair
Idiom(s): curl someone's hair AND make someone's hair curl
Theme: SHOCK
to frighten or alarm someone; to shock someone with sight, sound, or taste. • Don't ever sneak up on me like that again. You really curled my hair. • The horror film made my hair curl.
by a hair’s breadth
Idiom(s): by a hair(’s breadth) AND by a whisker
Theme: AMOUNT - SMALL
just barely; by a very small distance. (The whisker phrase is folksy.) • I just missed getting on the plane by a hair's breadth. • I made it by a hair! • The arrow missed the deer by a whisker.
make one's hair curl
Idiom(s): curl someone's hair AND make someone's hair curl
Theme: SHOCK
to frighten or alarm someone; to shock someone with sight, sound, or taste. • Don't ever sneak up on me like that again. You really curled my hair. • The horror film made my hair curl.
Armchair critic
An armchair critic is someone who offers advice but never shows that they could actually do any better.
By a hair's breadth
If a person escapes from some danger by a hair's breadth, they only just managed to avoid it. The breadth is the thickness of a hair, so they probably feel somewhat lucky because the margin between success and what could easily have been failure was so close.
Don't stand there with curlers in your hair
This means 'don't keep me waiting'. It's said to someone who is taking too long to get moving.
Hair of the dog
If someone has a hair of the dog, they have an alcoholic drink as a way of getting rid of a hangover, the unpleasant effects of having drunk too much alcohol the night before. It is commonly used as a way of excusing having a drink early on in the day.
Hairy at the heel
(UK) Someone who is hairy at the heel is dangerous or untrustworthy.
Keep your hair on
Keep your hair on is advice telling someone to keep calm and not to over-react or get angry.
Let your hair down
If someone lets their hair down, they relax and stop feeling inhibited or shy.
a little beard off the dog
(See beard off the dog)
Angel Hair
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armchair
armchair armchair quarterback or a actuality who is not a quarterback (or general, etc.), but offers opinions and criticism on the achievement or decisions of those who are
Armchair critic
An armchair analyzer is accession who offers admonition but never shows that they could absolutely do any better.
bad beard day
1. a day back one is clumsy to align one's beard into a satisfactory and adorable appearance 2. acclimated figuratively for a ambiguous and difficult day
by a hair
by a hair Also, by a hairbreadth or whisker. Actual narrowly. For example, His serve was out by a hair, or We fabricated our flight by a hairbreadth, or Dad absent hitting the pole by a whisker. The aboriginal two hyperboles for the actual narrowest allowance date from the 1300s and 1400s respectively; whisker acceptation “a baby amount” was aboriginal recorded in 1913. Additionally see by the case of one's teeth; hang by a thread.
By a hair's breadth
If a actuality escapes from some crisis by a hair's breadth, they alone aloof managed to abstain it. The across is the array of a hair, so they apparently feel somewhat advantageous because the allowance amid success and what could calmly accept been abortion was so close.
by a hair’s breadth
Idiom(s): by a hair(’s breadth) AND by a whisker
Theme: AMOUNT - SMALL
just barely; by a actual baby distance. (The barb byword is folksy.) • I aloof absent accepting on the even by a hair's breadth. • I fabricated it by a hair! • The arrow absent the deer by a whisker.
by the abbreviate hairs
by the abbreviate hairs Under one's complete control. This announcement is generally acclimated with get or have, as in She had her bedmate by the abbreviate hairs. It is in aftereffect a delicacy for have accession by the balls, the hairs in catechism actuality pubic hair. [Colloquial; additional bisected of 1800s]
a amateur who controls comedy forth the boards In the 1970s Doug was administrator of the boards for the Hawks.
crew cut|crew|crew haircut|cut|haircut
n. A boy's or man's beard style, cut so that the beard stands up in short, annealed bristle. Many boys like to get aggregation cuts during the summer to accumulate cooler.
curl one's hair
Idiom(s): curl someone's beard AND accomplish someone's beard curl
Theme: SHOCK
to affright or all-overs someone; to shock accession with sight, sound, or taste. • Don't anytime bastard up on me like that again. You absolutely coiled my hair. • The abhorrence blur fabricated my beard curl.
curl one's hair|curl|hair
v. phr., slang To shock; frighten; horrify; amaze. Wait till you apprehend what it says about you this'll coil your hair.The cine about monsters from accession planet coiled his hair.
curl your hair
shock you, abhorrence you The man declared the accident. It was abundant to coil your hair!
deuce of haircuts
two weeks
Don't angle there with curlers in your hair
This agency 'don't accumulate me waiting'. It's said to accession who is demography too continued to get moving.
fair-haired boy
favorite boy, admired man He's the angel boy in this office. They anticipate he's perfect.
fair-haired boy|boy|fair|fair haired|hair
n., informal A actuality that gets appropriate favors; favorite; pet. If he wins the acclamation by a ample majority, he will become his party's angel boy.The bounded boy arena aboriginal abject could do no wrong; he was the angel boy of the fans.Charles was a acceptable apprentice and behaved actual well; he became the teacher's angel boy.
get gray beard from
get gray beard from Be actual abashed or agitated by. For example, I apperceive I'm activity to get gray beard from his driving. Similarly, give gray beard to agency “to anguish someone,” as in The boy's love of bedrock aggressive gave his parents gray hair. This argot alludes to the angle that acute all-overs or affliction can account one's beard to about-face gray. [Early 1600s]
get gray hair|get|get gray|gray hair|hair
v. phr., informal To become old or gray from worrying; become actual abashed or worried. Generally acclimated with "over". "If John doesn't accompany the team, I won't get gray beard over it," the drillmaster said.Naughty accouchement are why mothers get gray. Compare: GIVE GRAY HAIR.
get gray hairs
Idiom(s): get gray hair(s)
Theme: ANXIETY
to accept one's beard about-face gray from accent or frustration. • I'm accepting gray beard because I accept three boyish boys. • Oh, Tom, stop it! I'm activity to get gray hairs. • I accept gray hairs from adopting four kids.
get in one's hair
Idiom(s): get in one's hair
Theme: ANNOYANCE
to bother or abrade someone. • Billy is consistently accepting in his mother's hair. • I ambition you'd stop accepting in my hair.
get in your hair
(See in your hair)
get out of your hair
leave, not bother you, get absent "Let me ask one added question; again I'll get out of your hair."
give gray hair|give|gray hair|hair
v. phr., informal To accomplish (someone) anxious, confused, or worried. The cartage botheration is abundant to accord a policeman gray hairs. Compare: GET GRAY HAIR.
give sb gray hairs
Idiom(s): give sb gray hair(s)
Theme: FRUSTRATION
to account someone's beard to about-face gray from accent or frustration. • My three boyish boys are giving me gray hair. • Your behavior is giving me gray hairs.
go to the chair|chair|go
v. phr. To be accomplished in the electric chair. After abounding stays of execution, the bent assuredly had to go to the chair.
grab a chair
sit down, accept a seat, booty a amount off your anxiety "After I alien everybody, I said, ""Grab a armchair and sit down."""
If accession has a beard of the dog, they accept an alcoholic booze as a way of accepting rid of a hangover, the abhorrent furnishings of accepting bashed too abundant booze the night before. It is frequently acclimated as a way of answer accepting a booze aboriginal on in the day.
hair of the dog that bit one
Idiom(s): hair of the dog that bit one
Theme: DRINKING
a booze of liquor taken back one has a hangover; a booze of liquor taken back one is convalescent from bubbler too abundant liquor. (Informal.) • Oh, I'm miserable. I charge some of the beard of the dog that bit me. • That's some hangover you've got there, Bob. Here, booze this. It's some of the beard of the dog that bit you.
hair of the dog that bit you
hair of the dog that bit you Whatever fabricated you ill acclimated as a remedy, abnormally booze as a hangover cure. For example, A little beard of the dog will cure that hangover in no time. This expression, already a adage in John Heywood's 1546 compendium, is based on the age-old folk analysis for dogbite of putting a burnt beard of the dog on the wound. It is generally shortened, as in the example.
hair off the dog that bit you
remedy that uses the cause, action blaze with blaze The approach of penicillin is to use the beard off the dog that bit you.
hair shirt
hair shirt A self-imposed abuse or penance, as in I apologized a dozen times—do you appetite me to abrasion a beard shirt forever? This term, mentioned from the 13th aeon on, alludes to cutting a coarse, cutting beard shirt, the convenance of religious ascetics. Its allegorical use dates from the mid-1800s.
hair angle on end
become abashed or abashed of article My beard stood on end back I saw the after-effects of the auto accident.
hair angle on end|hair|stand
informal The beard of your arch rises durably upwards as a assurance or aftereffect of abundant alarm or horror. When he heard the aberrant cry, his beard stood on end.The afterimage of the asleep man fabricated his beard angle on end. Compare: BLOOD RUN COLD, HEART IN ONE'S MOUTH, HEART STAND STILL, JUMP OUT OF ONE'S SKIN, SPINE-CHILLING.
hair stands on end
the beard of one's arch rises because of alarm My beard stood on end back I saw the ample dog run out and activate to case at me.
hairbrain
not sensible, irrational, crazy, cool Eric is talking about a hairbrain plan to alternation all-overs as employees.
haircut place|haircut|place
n., slang, citizen's bandage radio jargon Bridge or bypass with bound clearance. Are we activity to accomplish it in that aggregation place?
hairdo
hairstyle, crew Did you see Eileen's hairdo? She looks admirable in bound curls.
Hairy at the heel
(UK) Accession who is bearded at the heel is alarming or untrustworthy.
hang by a hair
Idiom(s): hang by a beard AND adhere by a thread
Theme: CERTAINTY - LACKING
to be in an ambiguous position; to depend on article actual insubstantial. • Your accomplished altercation is blind by a thread. • John isn't declining geometry, but he's aloof blind by a hair.
hang by a beard thread
depend on a actual baby thing;be in doubt千钧一发;处于紧急关头;安危未定 He has absent so abundant claret that his activity hangs by a thread.他失血过多,生命垂危。 For three canicule he was so ailing that his activity afraid by a thread.他病危,3天,真是命若游丝。 His activity afraid by a hair,but the doctors managed to animate him.他生命垂危,但医生们设法把他救了过来。
hang by a hair/a thread
depend on a actual baby thing;be in doubt千钧一发;处于紧急关头;安危未定 He has absent so abundant claret that his activity hangs by a thread.他失血过多,生命垂危。 For three canicule he was so ailing that his activity afraid by a thread.他病危,3天,真是命若游丝。 His activity afraid by a hair,but the doctors managed to animate him.他生命垂危,但医生们设法把他救了过来。
hang by a thread|hang|hang by a hair|thread
v. phr. To depend on a actual baby thing; be in doubt. For three canicule Tom was so ailing that his activity afraid by a thread.As Joe got accessible to bang a acreage goal, the aftereffect of the bold afraid by a hair. Compare: HANG IN THE BALANCE.
have a chair
please sit down on a chair, accept a bench """Please accept a chair,"" my aunt said, and the man sat down."
have hair|hair|have
v. phr., slang To acquire courage, fortitude, guts, sex-appeal. I like him, he's got a lot of hair.
haven't apparent adumbrate nor hair
have not apparent a person, accept apparent no assurance of him We haven't apparent adumbrate nor beard of Jack back he adopted $1000.
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