单词 | in someone's hair |
释义 | in someone's hairAnnoying or bothering someone. For example, She was constantly in my hair, overseeing everything I did, or Dad was working on taxes, and the children were getting in his hair. This expression alludes to entangling one's hair. [Mid-1800s] The antonym, out of someone's hair, is often used as an imperative, as in Get out of my hair! [c. 1900] Words nearby in someone's hairin some measure, in someone's, in someone's bad graces, in someone's face, in someone's good graces, in someone's hair, in someone's shoes, in someone's stead, insomnia, insomniac, insomnolence The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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