Idiom Breakdown

hide nor hair

English coordinated pairsEnglish negative polarity items

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Definition

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

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"He retired last June, and his coworkers have seen neither hide nor hair of him since."
"Not a one of us could catch hide nor hair nor sight nor sound of them."
"1982, Richard Schickel, "Flesh and Flash" (review of Cat People), Time, 5 Apr., No rational explanation for her lamentable condition is advanced, neither hide nor hair of a leopard is ever spotted, and certainly no scene in which woman literally turns into cat, or vice versa, is ever played."

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