hair out of place

English

Noun

hair out of place (plural hairs out of place)

1. (idiomatic, informal, chiefly in the negative) The slightest sign of disorder or unkemptness.
   • 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 8, in Nick, New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, page 55:

     Never fussed none about the work. Never hardly got a hair out of place.