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Below is an alphabetical list of widely used and repeated proverbial phrases. If known, their origins are noted. A proverbial phrase or expression is a type of conventional saying similar to a proverb and transmitted by oral tradition.
Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado and music by Galt MacDermot. The work reflects the creators' observations of the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution of the late 1960s, and several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement .
The musical’s title song begins as character Claude slowly croons his reason for his long hair, as tribe-mate Berger joins in singing they "don't know." [1] They lead the tribe, singing "Give me a head with hair," "as long as God can grow it," [1] listing what they want in a head of hair and their uses for it.
Hair of the dog", short for "hair of the dog that bit you", is a colloquial expression in the English language predominantly used to refer to alcohol that is consumed as a hangover remedy (with the aim of lessening the effects of a hangover). Many other languages have their own phrase to describe the same concept.
Click, scroll, click. “Here it is,” she said. “I have, like, 33,000 screenshots.” She smiled and swiped through more images on her phone.
Blue-hair: [2] Derogatory term referring to older women who color their hair a distinctive silvery-blue. Boomer : A postwar era -born person from the " Baby Boom ", or a " baby boomer "; this term can also be used in a neutral context.
In Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Tom Sawyer falls in love with Becky Thatcher, with her "yellow hair plaited into two long tails." [ 1 ] "Becky" is the title and subject of the fourth segment of Jean Toomer 's Harlem Renaissance novel Cane (1923), about a white woman with two black sons. [ 5 ]
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