Meanings
nounhair out of place (plural hairs out of place)
plural hairs out of place
- idiomaticinformalThe slightest sign of disorder or unkemptness.
Never fussed none about the work. Never hardly got a hair out of place.
2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 8, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 55
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