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thin on top
Idioms and Phrases
Becoming bald, as in I notice that he's getting a little thin on top . The top in this euphemism refers to the top of the head. [Second half of 1800s]Example Sentences
Jim Bouton, in his groundbreaking 1970 book “Ball Four” that revealed the inner working of baseball teams, recounted how “Pepitone took to wearing the hairpieces when his hair started to get thin on top. … He carries around all kinds of equipment in a little Blue Pan Am bag.”
I don’t have a full mohican any more – I got rid of it around 2000, when I started going thin on top.
We had to create paper that would be thin on top and flexible.
John’s hair had started to thin on top.
Too thin on top these days, alas.
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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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