hair out of place in English

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    {
      "form": "hairs out of place",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 8, in Nick, New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, page 55",
          "text": "Never fussed none about the work. Never hardly got a hair out of place.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "The slightest sign of disorder or unkemptness."
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          "unkemptness",
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        "(idiomatic, informal, chiefly in the negative) The slightest sign of disorder or unkemptness."
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        "in the negative"
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        "idiomatic",
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  "word": "hair out of place"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hairs out of place",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "hairs out of place"
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      "expansion": "hair out of place (plural hairs out of place)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 8, in Nick, New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, page 55",
          "text": "Never fussed none about the work. Never hardly got a hair out of place.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The slightest sign of disorder or unkemptness."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "disorder",
          "disorder"
        ],
        [
          "unkemptness",
          "unkemptness"
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        "(idiomatic, informal, chiefly in the negative) The slightest sign of disorder or unkemptness."
      ],
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        "in the negative"
      ],
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        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
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    }
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  "word": "hair out of place"
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"hair out of place" meaning in English

Noun