| 单词 | pale as one's shirt |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(as) pale (or white) as one's shirt f. (as) pale (or white) as one's shirt and variants: abnormally pale, especially from fear, anxiety, etc. Compare as white (or pale) as a sheet at sheet n.1 3c. ΚΠ 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. i. 82 Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other,..he comes before me. View more context for this quotation 1776 S. J. Pratt Pupil of Pleasure II. lxxvi. 66 The postboy brought me the note, trembling like a leaf and white as a shirt, protesting most fervently that he could not help the accident. 1847 G. Lippard Quaker City II. vi. iv. 479 Poodle grew red in the face, and then pale as his shirt bosom. 1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad lxii. 94 They shook, they stared as white's their shirt. 1922 Everybody's June 48/1 She went as white as my shirt-front when she saw me. 1988 J. K. Keefer Constellations i. 105 Claire, pale as her shirt, walks up to father and daughter, offering congratulations. 2002 A. C. Thorne Leave Dishes in Sink vi. 128 Wynne's face was as white as his shirt. He smiled weakly and said, ‘I seemed to have fainted.’ < as lemmas |
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