give someone grey hair

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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[1]).

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give someone grey hair (third-person singular simple present gives someone grey hair, present participle giving someone grey hair, simple past gave someone grey hair, past participle given someone grey hair)

  1. (idiomatic) To give someone great frustration, confusion, or anxiousness.

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