"turn a hair" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1891, Oscar Wilde, “chapter 12”, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:",
          "text": "If in some hideous dissecting-room or fetid laboratory you found this man lying on a leaden table with red gutters scooped out in it, you would simply look upon him as an admirable subject. You would not turn a hair.",
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          "ref": "1917, Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Part IV, Chapter 9, p. 435:",
          "text": "[…] those seasoned topers who drank their companions under the table without themselves turning a hair […]",
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          "ref": "1952, Neville Shute, The Far Country, London: Heinemann, Chapter:",
          "text": "[…] they all went into a shop that Jennifer alone would never have dreamed of entering, and looked at watches; finally Jane bought a gold self-winding wrist-watch for her husband for ninety-two guineas, and never turned a hair.",
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        "(idiomatic, in the negative) To show fear, alarm or distress; to be affected (by an experience or situation)."
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          "word": "bat an eyelid"
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