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A lion's résumé, a horse's windshield wipers, your hair's one good year.
means The long, thick hair growing around the neck of certain animals (or, by cheeky extension, a glorious head of human hair).
from From Middle English 'mane,' tracing back to Old English-era Germanic roots (related to Old Norse 'mǫn' and Old High German 'mana'), all likely descending from a prehistoric root tied to the 'neck' — so the word has always been about that one spot where the hair really shows off.
- status symbol
- darker manes signal higher testosterone to lionesses
- not for hunting
- manes overheat lions, so lionesses do most kills
- horse version
- grows from a ligament, flops whichever side it wants