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not turn a hair

Idioms  
  1. see turn a hair.

  2. Not become afraid or upset, remain calm, as in She didn't turn a hair during the bank robbery. This term, also put as without turning a hair, comes from horse racing. After a race, a horse often has roughened, outward-turned hair. Its figurative use, nearly always in the negative, dates from the late 1800s.


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America did not turn a hair, any more than it did about the Union Carbide explosion that killed 15,000 Indians in Bhopal in 1984, with only trivial compensation paid.

From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2010

A philosophical New Dealer and onetime college president, Mr. Horsfall did not turn a hair at the appearance of armed men on the Arkansas landscape.

From Time Magazine Archive

She thought to cover Don Carlos with confusion, but he did not turn a hair.

From Bandit Love by Savage, Juanita

His own men were in perfect training, and in the burning heat did not turn a hair.

From The Gracchi Marius and Sulla Epochs of Ancient History by Beesley, A.H.

He did not know how to bear being kept waiting in this way; but he did not turn a hair, possibly because there were not many to turn.

From Diana Tempest, Volume I (of 3) by Cholmondeley, Mary

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