Idiom
get out of someone's hair
Meaning
To manipulate somebody into quit pestering somebody else.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I will finish my work now to get out of your hair.”
“The children were playing loudly in the office, so I took them to the park to get out of my colleague's hair.”
“After spending the entire afternoon offering unsolicited advice on the project, he finally realized he should leave and get out of the manager's hair.”
Examples
simple
“I will finish my work now to get out of your hair.”
contextual
“The children were playing loudly in the office, so I took them to the park to get out of my colleague's hair.”
complex
“After spending the entire afternoon offering unsolicited advice on the project, he finally realized he should leave and get out of the manager's hair.”
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