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   From: alfargnoli@yahoo.com   
      
   On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 12:03:44 +1000, Peter Moylan   
    wrote:   
      
   >Oleg Lego wrote:   
   >> On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 15:41:31 -0400,  posted:   
   >>   
   >>> "Peter Moylan"  wrote in message   
   >>> news:13broeb40344k98@corp.supernews.com...   
   >>>> "hair-brained":     120,000 "bad hare day":     44,500   
   >>>>   
   >>> Bad hair?  English, for être de bon/mauvais poil, to be in a   
   >>> good/bad mood?   
   >>   
   >> I suppose that's part of the meaning, but it's more like "a day in   
   >> which many things go wrong". Since this could easily lead to a bad   
   >> mood, I say it's part of it.   
   >   
   >I've always understood it that way, but all the examples I've   
   >encountered recently have literally referred to hair. Most of those   
   >examples were from young woman in their twenties.   
      
   My GF, who is not quite 50, insists that "bad-hair day" is completely   
   literal and that I'm wrong to claim it can mean  "a day in which many   
   things go wrong."   
      
   In typical pig-headed-male fashion, I refuse to acknowledge my error.   
      
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