{"id":71921,"date":"2019-08-31T05:14:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T05:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71921"},"modified":"2019-08-31T05:14:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T05:14:36","slug":"hair-idioms-idioms-derived-from-the-word-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/hair-idioms-idioms-derived-from-the-word-hair\/","title":{"rendered":"Hair Idioms | Idioms Derived From The Word Hair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Idioms<\/strong> are common in all kinds of English, formal and informal, spoken and written. Here is a list of idioms derived from the word <strong><em>hair.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Make someone\u2019s hair stand on end<\/strong> (terrify someone)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The horror film really made my hair stand on end.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Curl someone&#8217;s hair<\/strong> (frighten or shock someone)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The thought of having to live alone in a haunted bungalow curled my hair.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Get in someone&#8217;s hair<\/strong> (annoy someone; disturb someone by being near them for a long period)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I should get something to keep the kids occupied so that they don&#8217;t get in my hair while I&#8217;m working.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Not a hair out of place<\/strong> (if you don\u2019t have a hair out of place, your appearance is very tidy.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She turned up as immaculate as ever, not a hair out of place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>A hair&#8217;s breadth<\/strong> (a very small distance or amount)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We shall not give up now \u2013 success is within a hair\u2019s breadth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Hair-raising<\/strong> (very frightening)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Walking through the thick forest was a hair-raising experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Harm a hair on someone&#8217;s head<\/strong> (to hurt someone)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He absolutely loves the girl. I can\u2019t believe that he will harm a hair on her head.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Have a bad hair day<\/strong> (feel unattractive or unhappy all day; if a machine has a bad hair day it doesn\u2019t work properly)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My computer is having a bad hair day today \u2013 it just doesn\u2019t work properly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Let your hair down<\/strong> (relax and enjoy yourself without worrying what other people will think)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Everybody should let their hair down once in a while.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idioms are common in all kinds of English, formal and informal, spoken and written. Here is a list of idioms derived from the word hair. Make someone\u2019s hair stand on end (terrify someone) The&#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":[21],"tags":[393,436,1038],"class_list":["post-71921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-english-idioms","tag-hair-idioms","tag-idioms-with-hair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71921","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=71921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71922,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71921\/revisions\/71922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}