bluehair

blue hair

An old or elderly woman. The phrase refers to the fact that such women's hair is sometimes a bluish color. I'm always surrounded by blue hairs at the podiatrist's office—I'm the youngest one there by about 50 years.
See also: blue, hair
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

bluehair

n. an old lady, especially one whose hair is tinted blue. The cruise was nice but sort of dull because of all the bluehairs aboard.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • blue hair
  • short hairs
  • a woman's work is never done
  • get (one) by the short and curlies
  • get someone by the short and curlies
  • average Jane
  • fish flakes
  • carry a Chinaman on (one's) back
  • have a Chinaman at (one's) neck
  • have a Chinaman on (one's) back
References in periodicals archive
Today well-known storyteller Marjorie Bluehair will be at Foxbar Library and locals are invited to come along and hear tales from the good old days while having a cup of tea.
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Effie, 20, who is originally from Durham and has striking bluehair, will be grabbing more of the attention this Thursday night at Bar Loco which is in Leazes Park Road.
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Big Sky releases new Belgian
Toronto pickup for Roadside Attractions should perform just OK with arthouse bluehairs.
Words and Pictures
(Around Father's Day, he'll tell you, you can make a theatre contribution of $10 and receive a thrift-store tie to give Dad.) Although the theatre's usual audience is mostly young, its vision is to seat the bluehairs next to the blue-haired.
It's only a play? Think again: creating theatre, one writer argues, requires astute cultural participation. (The Future of New Work)
By airing more traditional crime and legal skeins, youth-minded webs Fox ("Killer Instinct") and the WB ("Just Legal") brought out the bluehairs.
Nets face gray matter: webheads embrace aging baby boomers as the under-40 set spurns their drama series