hair out of place

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English

Noun

hair out of place (plural hairs out of place)

  1. (idiomatic, informal, chiefly in the negative) The slightest sign of disorder or unkemptness.
    • 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 8, in Nick, New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, page 55:
      Never fussed none about the work. Never hardly got a hair out of place.