{"id":2051,"date":"2017-04-01T17:09:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T17:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2017-04-01T17:09:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T17:09:37","slug":"hair-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/hair-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"Hair idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some idiomatic expressions involving the word hair.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bad hair day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When your hair is unmanageable, it is quite natural to have a bad hair day. Over the years, however, this expression has broadened its scope. Today it is used to refer to a wide variety of situations when everything seems to go wrong.<br \/>\nWhat is wrong with her? She has such a long face. Is she having a bad hair day?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hair of the dog<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes a small amount of something that made you ill can be used to make you feel better. For example, someone recovering from drinking too much might benefit from a drop of alcohol.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Here, have a drop of this. It&#8217;s a hair of the dog that bit you!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Hair&#8217;s breadth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you escape from something by a hair\u2019s breadth, you escape narrowly.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A stone fell off the roof and missed the worker by a hair\u2019s breadth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Get in someone\u2019s hair<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When someone gets in your hair, they keep annoying you.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If my children weren\u2019t getting in my hair, I would finish this job more quickly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Let your hair down<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To let your hair down is to relax and enjoy yourselves.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I desperately needed a holiday and when I finally had one, I let my hair down.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Make hair stand on end<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your hair stands on end when you are absolutely terrified of something.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Just the thought of being alone in that big home makes my hair stand on end.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Not a hair out of place<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you don\u2019t have a hair out of place, you look perfect.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She is always impeccably dressed. You will never find a hair out of place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tear one\u2019s hair out<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you tear your hair out, you are extremely agitated about something.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have been tearing my hair out all day trying to fix my bike.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Not turn a hair<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you don\u2019t turn a hair you don\u2019t show any emotions in situations where you are expected to react.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When income tax officials came to raid his home, he didn\u2019t turn a hair.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Split hairs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To split hairs is to pay too much attention to small differences.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t waste time splitting hairs. Accept things the way they are.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some idiomatic expressions involving the word hair. Bad hair day When your hair is unmanageable, it is quite natural to have a bad hair day. Over the years, however, this expression has&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[436],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","tag-hair-idioms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2052,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions\/2052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}