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in someone's hair
Idioms and Phrases
Annoying 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]Example Sentences
These racial classifications were often decided on the basis of photographs or superficial observations, including the infamous "pencil test" in which a pencil was put in someone's hair - if they shook their head and the pencil fell out, they were classified as white, but if it stayed in, they were not.
A hand placed on someone’s chest, or in someone’s hair, might signal either invitation or rejection.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from 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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