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Idiom

hide nor hair

Meaning

A trace, indication, or evidence, especially of a person.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“I have seen neither hide nor hair of my cat today.”

“We searched the entire park for the lost dog, but we found neither hide nor hair of him.”

“Despite an exhaustive search of the dense forest, the rescue team found neither hide nor hair of the missing hiker.”

Examples

simple

“I have seen neither hide nor hair of my cat today.”

contextual

“We searched the entire park for the lost dog, but we found neither hide nor hair of him.”

complex

“Despite an exhaustive search of the dense forest, the rescue team found neither hide nor hair of the missing hiker.”

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