| 单词 | of the first water |
| 释义 | of the first waterSEE SYNONYMS FOR of the first water ON THESAURUS.COM Of the finest quality, as in That was a play of the first water. This idiom refers to a grading system for diamonds for their color or luster (compared to the shininess of water). The system is no longer used but the term, used figuratively since the early 1800s, has survived it. Words nearby of the first wateroften, often as not, oftentimes, of the devil, of the essence, of the first water, of the kind, of the moment, Of Time and the River, ofuro, Ofwat The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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