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Be very worried or upset by. For example, I know I'm going to get gray hair from his driving . Similarly, give gray hair to means “to worry someone,” as in The boy's love of rock climbing gave his parents gray hair . This idiom alludes to the notion that extreme anxiety or grief can cause one's hair to turn gray. [Early 1600s]

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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