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Phrase(s): part someone’s hair
1. Lit. to divide someone’s hair into separate sections while combing it. • The barber asked me where I parted my hair. 2. Fig. to come very close to someone. (Usually an exaggeration.) • That plane flew so low that it nearly parted my hair. • He punched at me and missed. He only parted my hair.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs