English
Noun
en-noun|-
#idiom A trace, indication, or evidence, especially of a person.
#:He retired last June, and none of his coworkers have seen hide nor hair of him since.
Quotations
1885, w:Mark_Twain|Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, ch. 41,
:Not a one of us could catch hide nor hair nor sight nor sound of them.
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.
Usage notes
Usually used in negative grammatical constructions to describe the complete absence of someone or something.
Synonyms
hide or hair
Translations
Russian: ни �л���, ни д���
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