| 单词 | bad hair day |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbad hair day bad hair day n. colloquial (originally U.S.) a day on which one's hair is particularly unmanageable; (also in extended use) a day on which everything seems to go wrong; a period (not necessarily a day) in which one feels unusually agitated, dissatisfied, or self-conscious, esp. about one's appearance or performance. ΚΠ 1988 Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, Calif.) 24 July d1/5 Even those who emerge from the sea to casually braid their shiny wet vines into a thick coil with a hibiscus on the end also have bad-hair days. But let us not waste our pity on them... Let us mourn for the common types with skimpy hair who deserve tantrums. 1991 US 24 Jan. 12/2 Dining on tacos and sundaes, Gary Shandling revealed he can't live with ‘having a bad hair day’. 1992 Orlando Sentinel Tribune (Nexis) 22 June d1 Producer David Jacobs..must have been having a very bad hair day when he put his name on the dreary new crime series Bodies of Evidence. 1995 Guardian 11 Feb. (Guide Suppl.) 98 I apologise for all the hostility, but I think you'll understand. I'm having a bad hair day. 1997 Vanity Fair (N.Y) June 32 (advt.) The anti-residue shampoo that will end your bad hair days. 2001 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) 10 Jan. b1 His life has been one bad hair day after another. Now his money's gone, people are saying terrible things about him, and he's on the dole for legal help. < as lemmas |
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