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bad hair day
noun
- a disagreeable or unpleasant day, especially one during which one feels unattractive.
bad hair day
noun
- a day on which one's hair is untidy and unmanageable
- a day of mishaps and general irritation
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bad hair day1
First recorded in 1990–95
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Idioms and Phrases
A day when one's appearance, especially one's hair, does not look attractive. For example, What have I done to upset Martha? Nothing, she's just having a bad hair day . Originating as a humorous statement, this term was soon broadened to mean simply having a bad day, that is, a day when everything seems to go wrong. [Late 1980s] Also see not one's day .Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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