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give someone grey hair

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.34 in modern English

Syllables
give -some-one -grey hair
IPA
32
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To give someone great frustration, confusion, or anxiousness.

Etymology

The phrase is influenced by the popular belief that stress can cause the greying of hair (that link wasn't shown to be grounded scientifically until a January 2020 study on stress in mice for the Nature journal).

Inflected Forms

gives someone grey hair (present, singular) giving someone grey hair (participle, present) gave someone grey hair (past) given someone grey hair (participle, past) give someone gray hair (alternative)

Phrases

grey-haired oxidative stress

Frequently Paired Words

grey-haired oxidative stress get grey hair from

Synonyms

give grey hair to

Questions

What does give someone grey hair mean?
To give someone great frustration, confusion, or anxiousness.
Where does give someone grey hair come from?
The phrase is influenced by the popular belief that stress can cause the greying of hair (that link wasn't shown to be grounded scientifically until a January 2020 study on stress in mice for the Nature journal).

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