not turn a hair
Example Sentences
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America did not turn a hair, any more than it did about the Union Carbide explosion that killed 15,000 Indians in Bhopal in 1984, with only trivial compensation paid.
From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2010
A philosophical New Dealer and onetime college president, Mr. Horsfall did not turn a hair at the appearance of armed men on the Arkansas landscape.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He did not turn a hair when the trucks of equipment arrived from the house on Martin's Hill; he already had room for it in the cellar.
From The Fourth R by Smith, George Oliver
But the Boy was adamant, and I did not turn a hair.
From The Princess Passes by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
He did not turn a hair; it was merely as though he were listening to some fairy tale.
From King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties by Housman, Laurence