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tear one's hair
Idioms and Phrases
Also, tear out one's hair . Be greatly upset or distressed, as in I'm tearing my hair over these errors . This expression alludes to literally tearing out one's hair in a frenzy of grief or anger, a usage dating from a.d. 1000. Today it is generally hyperbolic.Example Sentences
No reason to tear one's hair over that!
But it is enough to make one tear one's hair to think that a man of genius received his first impressions in so small a corner of Europe that he could for a long time suppose that this Puritanism was current among Christian men.
One could shriek and tear one's hair because the German does not see that in his basement there is an awful Bluebeard's chamber.
It is folly to tear one's hair in sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.—Cicero.
One could tear one's hair to see him tied down by this large family till all his best days are gone.'
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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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