[Ads-l] _to lose one's hair_ Beatles Don't Pass me by

[Andy Bach]

I've always wondered about the line explaining her lateness: "you were in a
car crash and you lost your hair."  In the WikiP article, they have:
 However, the expression "to lose one's hair" was a fairly common English
idiom, and simply means "to become anxious or upset" (see, for
instance, Elizabeth
Bowen <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bowen>'s novel *The Death of
the Heart <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_the_Heart>*, 1938)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Pass_Me_By

While it makes a little more sense that way for the song but a few googles
don't come up with any hair losing/become upset idioms, English (British?)
or otherwise.
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