give someone grey hair

短语

词形变化

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别名

give someone gray hair

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To give someone great frustration, confusion, or anxiousness.

    习语

词源

The phrase is influenced by the popular belief that stress can cause the greying of hair (that link wasn't shown to be grounded scientifically until a January 2020 study on stress in mice for the Nature journal).

来源:wiktionary