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hair of the dog that bit one

/hair/US // hɛər //UK // (hɛə) //

咬人的狗毛,咬人的狗的毛,咬人的狗的头发,咬人的狗发

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
    • : an aggregate of such filaments, as that covering the human head or forming the coat of most mammals.
    • : a similar fine, filamentous outgrowth from the body of insects, spiders, etc.
    • : Botany. a filamentous outgrowth of the epidermis.
    • : cloth made of hair from animals, as camel and alpaca.
    • : a very small amount, degree, measure, magnitude, etc.; a fraction, as of time or space: He lost the race by a hair.

Phrases

  • hair of the dog that bit you
  • hair shirt
  • bad hair day
  • by a hair
  • by the short hairs
  • fair-haired boy
  • get gray hair from
  • hang by a thread (hair)
  • hide or hair
  • in someone's hair
  • let one's hair down
  • make one's hair stand on end
  • put lead in one's pencil (hair on one's chest)
  • split hairs
  • tear one's hair
  • turn a hair

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Examples

  • Third, the combo of baobab and castor seed oils helps seal and smooth out dry hair and promote hair growth.

  • His given name was Richard, but as soon as his hair came in, he was Red.

  • You may not see it but you are eating it and washing your hair with it.

  • The state’s worst tier — the dreaded purple tier — would allow only hair salons and barber shops to continue operating indoors at full capacity.

  • So proper that his salt-and-pepper hair is never out of place.

  • Cassandra, whose hair has already begun to fall out from her court-mandated chemotherapy, could face a similar outcome.

  • But his fingers moved through her silky strands of hair, and then down her neck.

  • She used electrolysis to banish the prickly hair from her delicate face.

  • They dye their hair and alter their clothes, but not enough to attract attention from authorities.

  • Hangover Rx: “The old ‘hair of the dog’ is pretty much just a myth,” says White.

  • I pictured him as slim and young looking, smooth-faced, with golden curly hair, and big brown eyes.

  • He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.

  • His hair was darker—almost brown save at the temples, where age had faded it to an ashen colour.

  • He frowned, and bent his head, and his long hair fell over his face, while the poor Stuttgardter sat there like a beaten hound.

  • He stood before the glass hung above the wash bench and 369 smoothed his hair.