| 词汇 | not to turn a hair |
| 词源 | not to turn a hair. Not to show any signs of distress, to be unruffled, unaffected by exertion or any agitation. This is a “horsey” term from the stables, where the first sign of distress in a horse is sweating, which roughens the animal’s coat, his hair remaining smooth and glossy as long as he keeps cool. Jane Austen first recorded the expression in Northanger Abbey (1797), writing of a horse: “. . . he had not turned a hair till we came to Walcot church.” |
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