gray hair Idioma

give sb gray hairs

Idiom(s): give sb gray hair(s)

Theme: FRUSTRATION

to cause someone's hair to turn gray from stress or frustration.
• My three teenage boys are giving me gray hair.
• Your behavior is giving me gray hairs.

get gray hairs

Idiom(s): get gray hair(s)

Theme: ANXIETY

to have one's hair turn gray from stress or frustration.
• I'm getting gray hair because I have three teenage boys.
• Oh, Tom, stop it! I'm going to get gray hairs.
• I have gray hairs from raising four kids.

get gray hair|get|get gray|gray hair|hair

v. phr., informal To become old or gray from worrying; become very anxious or worried.

Often used with "over". "If John doesn't join the team, I won't get gray hair over it," the coach said. Naughty children are why mothers get gray.
Compare: GIVE GRAY HAIR.

give gray hair|give|gray hair|hair

v. phr., informal To make (someone) anxious, confused, or worried. The traffic problem is enough to give a policeman gray hairs.
Compare: GET GRAY HAIR.

get gray hair from

get gray hair from
Be very worried or upset by. For example, I know I'm going to get gray hair from his driving. Similarly, give gray hair to means “to worry someone,” as in The boy's love of rock climbing gave his parents gray hair. This idiom alludes to the notion that extreme anxiety or grief can cause one's hair to turn gray. [Early 1600s]

gray hair

1. Literally, beard that has lightened to a grayish color, about due to aging. I'm alone 30—how do I accept gray beard already?2. By extension, abrogating or causeless concrete furnishings (such as beard that has lightened) due to actuality awfully worried, stressed, or agitated by or about article or someone. I'm accepting gray beard from actuality about these agreeable kids all day long. I'm activity to get gray beard from my boyish babe and all her agrarian behavior. I'm activity to get gray beard from ambidextrous with this brainless car breaking down all the time!Learn more: gray, hair

*gray hair(s)

1. Lit. a abating of the beard acquired by crumbling or ancestral factors. (*Typically: get ~ accept ~ accord addition ∼.) I get added gray beard the earlier I get. I assumption my genes accord me gray hair.
2. Fig. a abating of the beard acquired by accent or frustration. (*Typically: get ~ accept ~ accord addition ∼.) I'm accepting gray hairs because I accept three boyish boys. I accept gray beard from adopting four kids.Learn more: gray, hair

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