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Difference between Hide and hair and Neither hide nor hair

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hide and hair —(coll.)

1. completely; wholly:

  • And I don’t mean to do the thing by halves. No; I shall save you, hide and hair.

2. (in the phrase “eat someone up hide and hair”) hurt or otherwise seriously harm a person:

  • Mother had often said that anybody could eat us up hide and hair before help arrived from the camp.

neither hide nor hair —(coll.) not a trace of a person’s presence; nothing whatever:

  • The bank was robbed two months ago, but the police could find neither hide nor hair of the criminals yet.