Re: Hare or hair?
- From: djheydt@xxxxxxxxxxx (Dorothy J Heydt)
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:01:48 GMT
In article <1hbgp2v.gmkpg9kl24dvN%usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Catja Pafort <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rich Weyand wrote:
Normally it's he HAS 'a wild hair', short for 'a wild hair up one's bum',
meaning they're kind of, well, fidgety about this or that issue. "He has a
real wild hair about people humming while he's trying to drive."
I can honestly say this is the first time I've come across that
particular expression.
Very... graphic, which is probably why I've not heard it before.
I never heard the "up his [body part]" part before. What I
always heard was "he's got a wild hair", location unspecified but
presumably on his head, meaning a streak of wildness that might
come out under the appropriate stimulus. Sort of like a member
of the Took family.
Dorothy J. Heydt
Albany, California
djheydt@xxxxxxxxxxx
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