What is the difference between hair and hairs?

What is the difference between hair and hairs?

The soft matter covering your head is usually referred to using a plural noun in other languages, e.g. die Haare in German or les cheveux in French. In English, however, “hair” is a mass noun (just like “fur” or “grass”), and as such it is used with singular verbs: correct My hair is long.

What is the plural form of the word hair?

hair (countable and uncountable, plural hairs) (but usually in singular)

Why do we say bread and butter?

When two people are walking side-by-side holding hands but briefly separate to go around an obstacle on opposite sites, they might say “bread and butter.” This phrase apparently stems from an old superstition that if the two people want to remain inseparable as bread and butter, they should invoke that kind of …

What does it mean to butter someone’s bread?

Be aware of where one’s best interests lie, as in Jerry always helps out his boss; he knows which side of his bread is buttered. This expression alludes to the more favorable, or buttered, side of bread and has been used metaphorically since the early 1500s.

What does the idiom cool as a cucumber mean?

Calm and composed, self-possessed, as in Despite the mishap Margaret was cool as a cucumber. This idiom may be based on the fact that in hot weather the inside of cucumbers remains cooler than the air.

What are bread and butter issues?

A bread-and-butter issue is one that affects everyday people, like tax rates or road conditions. Basic, fundamental matters are bread-and-butter issues. Issues that have some connection to money are often described this way too, especially by politicians and journalists.

What does bread and butter mean in business?

a job or activity that provides a person’s or organization’s main income: Small-business clients are our bread and butter. (Definition of bread and butter from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)