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 or bat an eye, but waited for Wally to run out of breath.
From Fore! by Loan, Charles Emmett Van
But the Virginian did not turn a hair.
From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Wister, Owen
I'll lecture them blue in the face, I will, and not turn a hair.
From Pygmalion by Shaw, Bernard