英语词汇get in one-s hair的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

get in one’s hair. Shakespeare wrote “Thou art ever in my beard,” but it took almost another three centuries before someone invented “You get in my hair.” That someone is anonymous, but the expression describing somebody or something persistently annoying a person is of American ori- gin. The phrase is first recorded in an Oregon newspaper in 1851 and no explanation is given for it. The obvious explana- tion is that the original comparison was to lice, or “cooties,” getting in the hair and irritating the scalp, but the possibilities are limitless.

词汇	get in one-s hair
词源	get in one’s hair. Shakespeare wrote “Thou art ever in my beard,” but it took almost another three centuries before someone invented “You get in my hair.” That someone is anonymous, but the expression describing somebody or something persistently annoying a person is of American ori- gin. The phrase is first recorded in an Oregon newspaper in 1851 and no explanation is given for it. The obvious explana- tion is that the original comparison was to lice, or “cooties,” getting in the hair and irritating the scalp, but the possibilities are limitless.
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