| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Hair stand on End | Literature | 1: Indicative of intense mental distress and astonishment. Dr. Andrews, of Beresford chapel, Walworth, who attended Probert under sentence of death, says: "When the executioner put the cords on his wrists, his hair, though long and lanky, of a weak iron-grey, rose gradually and stood perfectly upright, and so remained for some time, and then fell gradually down again." 2: "Fear came upon me and trembling,... [and] the hair of my flesh stood up." - Job iv. 14, 15. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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