give someone grey hair

verb

Etymology

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).

Definitions

  1. To give someone great frustration, confusion, or anxiousness.

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No curated loop yet for give someone grey hair. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA