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neither hide nor hair neither hide nor hairNo trace or evidence of someone or something. I don't know where Mike went. I've seen neither hide nor hair of him all day. See also: hair, hide, neither, nor Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. *(neither) hide nor hairCliché no sign or indication of someone or something. (*Typically: find ~; see ~.) We could find neither hide nor hair of him. I don't know where he is. There has been no one here. We found neither hide nor hair. See also: hair, hide, nor McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. hide nor hair, neitherAlso, hide or hair. No trace of something lost or missing. For example, I haven't seen hide nor hair of the children. This expression alludes to the entire outer coat of an animal. [Mid-1800s] See also: hide, neither, nor The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. neither hide nor hair of someone not the slightest trace of someone.See also: hair, hide, neither, nor, of, someone Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary hide nor hair A trace; a vestige: haven't seen hide nor hair of them since the argument. See also: hair, hide, nor American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. neither hide nor hairNothing; no part of something. The term, which dates from Chaucer’s time, alludes to the fact that the outside of an animal is made up of hide and hair, which therefore constitute its entirety. The negative version, nearly always meaning that something or someone cannot be seen or found, became common in the mid-nineteenth century. “I haven’t seen hide nor hair of the piece,” wrote Josiah G. Holland (The Bay-Path, 1857). See also: hair, hide, neither, nor The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also:- hide nor hair, neither
- neither hide nor hair of someone
- not see hide nor hair of somebody/something
- haven't seen hide nor hair of (someone or something)
- haven't seen hide nor hair of someone/something
- get in (one's) hair
- get in somebody's hair
- frizz up
- out of curl
- tear one's hair, to
References in classic literature They left their horses, loaded and tied, and just disappeared off the face of the earth, leaving neither hide nor hair behind them. The Night Born Which is fair enough, because he's probably never heard of me, given I've seen neither hide nor hair of him since the general election. Silver linings as the political storm clouds continue to gather There is neither hide nor hair of an issue of even remote interest to broadcasters. June Broadcast Snoozer at the FCC It doesn't seem that Kelly continued her foray into television like some of her co-stars, as we could find neither hide nor hair of her. Heads of the Valleys; FEATURE Pam Fi, Duw? was the Welsh-language soap which entertained schoolchildren in the late 1990s, but how many faces do you remember? Kathryn Williams dips into the 'where are they now' file But, funny enough, in five years we saw neither hide nor hair of them. CLEGG'S CLASS IN HYPOCRISY I've seen neither hide nor hair of them for four weeks. It's bin a long time "We were promised we would be told the results of the investigation and we have heard neither hide nor hair," Johnson said. Secrecy keeps victims, accused in the dark Chicago's WBBM Channel 2 ran the story on May 14, and an APB was put out for Bear, but for three days neither hide nor hair was seen of him. Lost & found Though we saw neither hide nor hair of Chuck Dinkins or Fred Reeves, we ran into plenty of others including the one-time-egg-plant-challenged Donnie Griffin (now a father and mortgage broker), freestyle sensation Reggie Barnes (owner of Eastern Distribution), formerly sha-danked Ray Underhill (Eastern employee) and, most exciting, Atlanta's Tommy Kay (mustached Trashmore fan in Future Primitive who reminds his mother to "Keep the dead raccoon out of my truck, please!") We also ran into a kid claiming to be Jeff Hedges' cousin--an assertion so random it had to be true. All trucks free of dead raccoons One of the few forces which failed to arrest Steve was Yorkshire, in spite of the best efforts of the impressively-named Chief Inspector (Acting) Tadeusz Nowakowski, the Morse of the North, who saw neither hide nor hair of him. Stotty On Sunday: BARING UP WELL Since the triumphal detection of the neutrinos, however, astronomers have seen neither hide nor hair of the neutron star. A supernova turns 10: birthday of an explosion |