Hairdresser Phrases

Phrases

• A hair up your ass
• As fine as frog's hair
• Bad hair day
• Barnet Fair (Cockney rhyming slang for hair)
• Blue rinse
• Blue rinse brigade
• Clean cut boy
• Cut a cheque
• Cut a dash
• Cut a deal
• Cut a hog
• Cut a long story short
• Cut a rug
• Cut a wide swathe (make a pompous display)
• Cut above the rest
• Cut and dried
• Cut and paste
• Cut and run
• Cut and shut
• Cut and thrust
• Cut bait
• Cut corners
• Cut costs
• Cut from the same cloth
• Cut it fine
• Cut it out
• Cut loose
• Cut no ice
• Cut off at the knees
• Cut off without a penny
• Cut out for
• Cut out the dead wood
• Cut prices to the bone
• Cut some slack
• Cut someone dead
• Cut someone down in their prime
• Cut someone down to size
• Cut the Gordian knot
• Cut the cackle
• Cut the cheese
• Cut the cord
• Cut the crap
• Cut the ground from under your feet
• Cut the mustard
• Cut the umbilical cord
• Cut throat competition
• Cut through the red tape
• Cut to the chase
• Cut to the quick
• Cut up about
• Cut up rough
• Cut your coat to suit your cloth
• Cut your losses
• Cut your own throat
• Cut your teeth
• Didn't turn a hair
• Director's cut

• Does she or doesn't she? Only her hairdresser knows for sure (Clairol advertising slogan)
• Don't cut off your nose to spite your face
• Enough to make your hair curl
• Final cut
• First cut
• Fish or cut bait
• Full head of hair
• Get in your hair
• Get out of my hair
• Go through with a fine toothed comb
• Hair Canada (Nickname of basketball player Steve Nash)
• Hair of the dog
• Hair of the dog that bit you
• Hair pie
• Hair raising
• Hair shirt
• Hair today gone tomorrow
• Hair trigger
• Hair's breadth
• Half cut
• Have your hair stand on end
• Have your work cut out for you
• Head of hair
• Home haircut
• If I've only one life, let me live it as a blonde! (Clairol Hair Colouring advertising slogan)
• In Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs (Beatles song lyric)
• In your hair
• Is she or isn't she? (Harmony hair spray advertising slogan)
• Keep your hair on
• Let your hair down
• Like a chicken with its head cut off
• Lose your hair
• Make the cut
• Makes your hair stands on end
• Measure twice, cut once
• Miss the cut
• My stomach thinks my throat's been cut
• Neck beard (hair growth on the neck)
• Neither hide nor hair
• Not cut out for it
• Prime cut
• Pull your hair out
• Puts hair on your chest
• San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) (Scott McKenzie song)
• Set your hair on fire
• Silver fox (a handsome grey-haired man)
• Silver threads amongst the gold (blonde hair that is turning grey)
• Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone (from a poem by Auden)
• Tear your hair out
• The Barber (Nickname of Sal Maglie)
• The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Nickname of Sweeney Todd)
• The Final Cut (Pink Floyd song)
• The First Cut Is The Deepest (Rod Stewart song)
• The cut of your jib
• The unkindest cut of all
• To cut a long story short
• You could have cut the atmosphere with a knife