| 单词 | plain as day |
| 释义 | plain as daySEE SYNONYMS FOR plain as day ON THESAURUS.COM Also, plain as the nose on your face. Very obvious, quite clear, as in It's plain as day that they must sell their house before they can buy another, or It's plain as the nose on your face that she's lying. These similes have largely replaced the earlier plain as a packstaff or pikestaff, from the mid-1500s, alluding to the stick on which a peddler carried his wares over his shoulder. The first term, from the late 1800s, is probably a shortening of plain as the sun at midday; the variant dates from the late 1600s. Words nearby plain as dayplaice, plaid, Plaid Cymru, plaided, plain, plain as day, plain bearing, plainchant, plain chocolate, plain clothes, plainclothesman 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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