单词 | hair |
释义 | hair —hairlike, adj. /hair/, n. 1. 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. Bot. a filamentous outgrowth of the epidermis. 5. cloth made of hair from animals, as camel and alpaca. 6. a very small amount, degree, measure, magnitude, etc.; a fraction, as of time or space: He lost the race by a hair. 7. 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. 9. 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. split 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. without turning a hair, without showing the least excitement or emotion. Also, not turn a hair. [bef. 900; ME heer, OE haer (c. D, G haar, ON har), with vowel perh. from ME haire hair shirt < OF < OHG haria (c. ME here, OE haere, ON haera)] |
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