GIVE GRAY HAIR

Meaning of GIVE GRAY HAIR in English

v. phr. , informal To make (someone) anxious, confused, or worried. The traffic problem is enough to give a policeman gray hairs.

Compare: GET GRAY HAIR.

American idioms English vocabulary. Английский словарь американских идиом. 2012

GIVE GRAY HAIR — {v. phr.}, {informal} To make (someone) anxious, confused, or worried. * /The traffic problem is enough to give a policeman …
Slang English vocab
GIVE GRAY HAIR — {v. phr.}, {informal} To make (someone) anxious, confused, or worried. * /The traffic problem is enough to give a policeman …
Словарь английских идиом
GRAY — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) gray fox Gray Asa Gray Thomas Otis Harrison Gray Anne Gray Harvey
Английский словарь Британика
HAIR — I. ˈha(a)](ə)r, ˈhe], ]ə noun ( -s ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English her, heer, hare, heir, hair, from …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
GRAY — I. adjective or grey ˈgrā ( -er/-est ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English grǣg; akin to Old High German …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
GIVE — I. ˈgiv verb ( gave ˈgāv ; or nonstandard give ˈgiv ; or dialect gin ˈgin ; or guv ˈgəv …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
GRAY — (n.) An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon.
Английский словарь Webster
GRAY — (n.) A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a neutral or whitish tint.
Английский словарь Webster
GRAY — (superl.) Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.
Английский словарь Webster
GRAY — ( superl. ) Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
HAIR — — hairlike , adj. /hair/ , n. 1. any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
GRAY — gray 1 — grayly , adv. — grayness , n. /gray/ , adj., grayer, grayest , n. , v. adj. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
GIVE — — givable, giveable , adj. , n. — givee , n. — giver , n. /giv/ , v. , gave, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
GRAY — adj. of the color gray; having gray hair; dark or gloomy; dull, uninteresting; indeterminate, unclear (also grey)
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
GRAY — v. make gray; turn gray (mainly referring to hair)
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
GRAY — I. adjective also grey ˈgrā Etymology: Middle English, from Old English grǣg; akin to Old High German grīs, grāo gray …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
GIVE — I. ˈgiv verb ( gave ˈgāv ; giv·en ˈgi-vən ; giv·ing ) Etymology: Middle English, of Scandinavian origin; akin to …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
HAIR — noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hǣr; akin to Old High German hār hair Date: before …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
HAIR — noun a haircloth. 2. hair ·noun a spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm. 3. hair ·noun any very small …
Webster English vocab
GRAY — superl old; mature; as, gray experience. ames. 2. gray ·superl gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary. 3. gray ·noun …
Webster English vocab
GIVE — vi to have a misgiving. 2. give ·vi to become soft or moist. 3. give ·vi to give a gift …
Webster English vocab
HAIR — [hair] n, often attrib [ME, fr. OE haer; akin to OHG har hair] (bef. 12c) 1 a: a slender threadlike …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
GRAY — [gray] adj [ME, fr. OE graeg; akin to OHG gris, grao gray] (bef. 12c) 1 a: of the color gray …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
GIVE — [give] vb gave ; giv.en ; giv.ing [ME, of Scand origin; akin to OSw giva to give; akin to OE …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
HAIR — in mammals, the characteristic threadlike outgrowths of the outer layer of the skin (epidermis) that form an animal's coat, or …
Britannica English vocabulary
GRAY — unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation, defined in the 1980s by the International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements. …
Britannica English vocabulary
GRAY — gray, Gray BrE AmE ɡreɪ ▷ grayed ɡreɪd ▷ grayer ˈɡreɪ ə AmE \ - ə r ▷ grayest ˈɡreɪ …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
HAIR — / heə(r); NAmE her/ noun 1. [ U , C ] the substance that looks like a mass of fine …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
GIVE — / gɪv; NAmE / verb , noun ■ verb ( gave / geɪv; NAmE / given / ˈgɪvn; NAmE /) …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HAIR — hair S1 W1 /heə $ her/ BrE AmE noun [ Word Family: noun : ↑ hair , ↑ hairiness ; …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
GRAY — I. Gray, David BrE AmE (1970–) a British POP SINGER and ↑ songwriter who also plays the ↑ guitar . …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
GRAY — I. gray /ɡreɪ/ BrE AmE the usual American spelling of ↑ grey II. grey 2 BrE AmE British English , …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
GIVE
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
HAIR — n. 1 a any of the fine threadlike strands growing from the skin of mammals, esp. from the human head. …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
GIVE — v. & n. --v. (past gave; past part. given) 1 tr. (also absol.; often foll. by to) transfer the possession …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
HAIR — n. 1 a any of the fine threadlike strands growing from the skin of mammals, esp. from the human head. …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
GIVE — v. & n. v. (past gave; past part. given) 1 tr. (also absol.; often foll. by to) transfer the possession …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
HAIR — n.1 a any of the fine threadlike strands growing from the skin of mammals, esp. from the human head. b …
Oxford English vocab
GIVE — v. & n. --v. (past gave; past part. given) 1. tr. (also absol.; often foll. by to) transfer the possession …
Oxford English vocab
GIVE
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HAIR — ( hairs) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. Your hair is the …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HAIR — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a hair appointment (= to have your hair cut ) ▪ I’d like to make …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
GRAY — COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN area ▪ But in the gray area of the Internet, activities that publishers call stealing …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
GIVE
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
HAIR — [noun] - the mass of thin threadlike structures on the head of a person, or any of these structures that …
Cambridge English vocab
GRAY — n. gray fox Gray Asa Gray Thomas Otis Harrison Gray Anne Gray Harvey
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
GRAY
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
GIVE — Synonyms and related words : abalienate, abandon, abstain from, accommodate, accord, act, adaptability, administer, afford, agreeability, aid, air, alien, alienate, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
HAIR — See: CURL ONE'S HAIR, GET GRAY HAIR or GET GRAY, GIVE GRAY HAIR, HANG BY A THREAD or HANG BY …
Slang English vocab
GRAY — See: GET GRAY HAIR or GET GRAY, GIVE GRAY HAIR.
Slang English vocab
GIVE — n. give away give back give off give out give over give up self giving given name
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
GIVE — INDEX: 1. to give something to someone without expecting to be paid for it 2. to give something to everyone …
Longman Activator English vocab
HAIR — n. 25B6; noun her thick black hair : HEAD OF HAIR, shock of hair, mane, mop; locks, tresses, curls, ringlets. …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
GIVE — n. 25B6; verb he gave them £2000 : PRESENT WITH, provide with, supply with, furnish with, let someone have; hand …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
GIVE — v. 1 present, deliver, pass (over), turn or hand over, confer, vouchsafe, provide, supply, furnish, bestow, donate, accord, afford, award, …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
HAIR — See: CURL ONE'S HAIR, GET GRAY HAIR or GET GRAY, GIVE GRAY HAIR, HANG BY A THREAD or HANG BY …
Словарь английских идиом
GRAY — See: GET GRAY HAIR or GET GRAY, GIVE GRAY HAIR.
Словарь английских идиом
HAIR — The Hebrews were fully alive to the importance of the hair as an element of personal beauty. Long hair was …
Smith's Bible English Dictionary
HAIR — noun 1 BAD : He had a black hair and very clear eyes. GOOD : He had black hair and …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
GRAY — The international system (SI) unit of absorbed dose. One gray is equal to an absorbed dose of 1 Joule/kilogram (one …
NRC Nuclear Energy English Glossary
HAIR — сущ. 1) волосы to brush hair, comb hair ≈ причесывать волосы to backcomb hair, tease hair амер. hair ≈ начесывать …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
GRAY — = grey ; прил. серый цвет - dull * тускло-серый цвет - charcoal * темно-серый цвет оттенок серого цвета серая …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
GIVE
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
HAIR — hair.ogg 1. heə n 1. собир. волосы thick thin hair - густые редкие волосы in one's hair - а) без …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей

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