Idiom
tear one's hair out
Meaning
To react with extreme agitation.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I am tearing my hair out trying to fix this computer.”
“The project deadline is tomorrow, and the constant technical errors are making me tear my hair out.”
“As the complex legal documents continued to contradict one another, the exhausted lawyer began to tear her hair out in sheer frustration.”
Examples
simple
“I am tearing my hair out trying to fix this computer.”
contextual
“The project deadline is tomorrow, and the constant technical errors are making me tear my hair out.”
complex
“As the complex legal documents continued to contradict one another, the exhausted lawyer began to tear her hair out in sheer frustration.”
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