Your conduct is going to leave me thin on top

[JACEK1]

Hello all users!

In Polish, it is commom for people to say something like that: You are going to make me go bald or You are going to make me bald or Your conduct is going to make me thin on top.

By the above-mentioned variants, I mean "I am going to go bald through that conduct of yours", "Your conduct is going to leave me thin on top".

What is your opinion?

Thank you.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Those aren't common expressions in the US. We sometimes say "pulling my/her/his hair out":

- I don't know where he is. I've looked everywhere. I'm pulling my hair out!

- This puzzle in impossible! I've been pulling my hair out trying to solve it.

 

[Rover_KE]

In BE, it's 'tearing my hair out'.

 

[GoesStation]

In BE, it's 'tearing my hair out'.

That's how I'd say it in AmE too.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Yes. In the US, both are good and mean the same thing.

 

[Raymott]

I don't think the original idea was about tearing one's hair out, was it? I was assuming that the worry was making his hair fall out.

 

[emsr2d2]

Like Raymott, I assumed that the suggestion was that the stress or worry caused by someone's behaviour was enough to make someone else's hair start to fall out.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

I don't think the original idea was about tearing one's hair out, was it? I was assuming that the worry was making his hair fall out.

Right. I said up front that we don't have that expression. Then I went on to describe another expression that's similar but doesn't mean the same thing.

It's good that you're bringing this back to the original question. So again, Jacek, "thin on top" is meaningful in Polish but not in English.

 

[Tdol]

I think you could say I'm losing my hair/My hair's falling out because of you.

 

[JACEK1]

I think I will adhere to Tdol's opinion.