Meaning of turn a hair | Babel Free

Definitions

To show fear, alarm or distress; to be affected (by an experience or situation).

idiomatic

Examples

“If in some hideous dissecting-room or fetid laboratory you found this man lying on a leaden table with red gutters scooped out in it, you would simply look upon him as an admirable subject. You would not turn a hair.”

“[…] those seasoned topers who drank their companions under the table without themselves turning a hair […]”

“[…] they all went into a shop that Jennifer alone would never have dreamed of entering, and looked at watches; finally Jane bought a gold self-winding wrist-watch for her husband for ninety-two guineas, and never turned a hair.”

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