out of one's hair
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This blog post suggests using peanut butter to get it off, the same substance one turns to for getting gum out of one’s hair—think about that.
From Slate
At the time, the inspector of elections for the meeting praised it as a model for keeping “those mostly obnoxious proponents out of one’s hair.”
From New York Times
The night is chilly; and they say the atmosphere of this Red River country is full of miasma, with fevers and ague to shake the comb out of one’s hair!
From Project Gutenberg
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