hide nor hair en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(idiomatic, uncountable) A trace, indication, or evidence, especially of a person.
He retired last June, and his coworkers have seen neither hide nor hair of him since.
Not a one of us could catch hide nor hair nor sight nor sound of them.
1885, Mark Twain, chapter 41, in Huckleberry Finn:1982, Richard Schickel, "Flesh and Flash" (review of Cat People), Time, 5 Apr., No rational explanation for her lamentable condition is advanced, neither hide nor hair of a leopard is ever spotted, and certainly no scene in which woman literally turns into cat, or vice versa, is ever played.
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mk ни трага ни глас (trace) · ru ни слуху, ни духу (trace) · pl ani widu, ani słychu (trace)