hide nor hair, neither

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Also, hide or hair. No trace of something lost or missing. For example, I haven't seen hide nor hair of the children. This expression alludes to the entire outer coat of an animal. [Mid-1800s]

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Words nearby hide nor hair, neither

Hide-A-Bed, hide-and-seek, hideaway, hideaway bed, hidebound, hide nor hair, neither, hide one's face, hide one's head in the sand, hide one's light under a bushel, hideous, hideout

How to use hide nor hair, neither in a sentence

But the enemy of the new emirs is neither the Jew nor the Christian, it is the godless militant defending secularism.
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Despite the strong language, however, the neither the JPO nor Lockheed could dispute a single fact in either Daily Beast report.
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Cassandra, whose hair has already begun to fall out from her court-mandated chemotherapy, could face a similar outcome.
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Neither the Republican nor the Democratic party have done anything to consistently target Asian- American voters.
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This reporter knocked at the Wilkins home on Tuesday morning but received neither an answer nor the business end of a shotgun.
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Poor Squinty ran and tried to hide under the straw, for he knew the boy was talking about him.
Squinty the Comical Pig|Richard Barnum
A desultory conversation on politics, in which neither took the slightest interest, was a safe neutral ground.
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I pictured him as slim and young looking, smooth-faced, with golden curly hair, and big brown eyes.
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On the morning after Ramona's disappearance, words had been spoken by each which neither would ever forget.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.
The Bondboy|George W. (George Washington) Ogden