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Definition

To give someone great frustration, confusion, or anxiousness.

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Origins

The phrase is influenced by the popular belief that stress can cause the greying of hair (that link wasn't shown to be grounded scientifically until a January 2020 study on stress in mice for the Nature journal).

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Also Said As

  • give grey hair to
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See Also

  • grey-haired
  • oxidative stress