give someone grey hair
Meaning
Verb
- To give someone great frustration, confusion, or anxiousness.
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Origin
- 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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