| 单词 | as white as a sheet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas white (or pale) as a sheet c. In proverbial phrase as white (or pale) as a sheet. Cf. (as) pale (or white) as one's shirt at shirt n. Phrases 2f, white adj. 4a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [adjective] blatec1000 whiteOE greena1275 blakec1275 bleykea1300 wana1300 palec1330 bleach1340 pale and wan (wan and pale)c1374 colourlessc1380 deadlyc1385 deadc1386 bloodlessc1450 earthlyc1460 ruddylessc1460 wan visaged?a1513 wanny1555 as pale or white as a clout1557 bleak1566 mealy1566 pale-faced1570 ghastly1574 white-faced1577 bleakish1581 pallid1590 whiggish1590 tallow-faced1592 maid-pale1597 lily1600 whey-colour1602 lew1611 roseless1611 Hippocratical1615 cadaverousa1661 Hippocratic1681 smock-faced1684 white-looked1690 livid1728 as white (or pale) as a sheet1752 squalid1753 deathly1791 etiolated1791 light-skinned1802 suety1803 shilpit1813 blanched1828 tallowy1830 suet-faced1834 pasty1836 tallowish1838 whey-faced1847 pasty-faced1848 aghast1850 waxen1853 complexionless1863 light-skin1877 lily-cheeked1877 lardy1879 wan-faced1881 exsanguinous1889 wheatish1950 1752 H. Fielding Amelia III. vii. viii. 84 He entered..with a Face as white as a Sheet. 1839 W. T. Thompson Major Jones' Chron. Pineville (1845) 142 He turned pale as a sheet. 1872 T. Hardy Under Greenwood Tree I. i. viii. 125 You'll be as white as a sheet to-morrow. 1929 E. L. Rice Street Scene i. 72 Well, there was the three o' them—Mr. Maurrant lookin' at Sankey as if he was ready to kill him, an' Mrs. Maurrant as white as a sheet, an' Sankey as innocent as the babe unborn. 1952 A. J. Cronin Adventures in Two Worlds xxxix. 276 Sitting on a high stool, he seemed little larger than a shrimp, pale as a sheet, with..big dark eyes. as white as a sheet P1. In similative and comparative phrases, sometimes hyperbolical, and frequently with connotations of purity, esp. as white as (or whiter than) snow, milk (cf. snow-white adj. and n., milk-white adj. and n.), as white as lily flower, as white as glass, as white as a swan (cf. swan-white adj.), as white as whale's bone, as white as flour, as white as a neep, as white as wool, as white as curds, and (in sense A. 4) as white as a cloth, as white as a sheet, as white as a ghost. ΚΠ OE St. Mary of Egypt (Julius) (2002) 72 Þa loccas hire heafdes wæron swa hwite swa wull [L. ut lana albos]. OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xvii. 2 Hys reaf wæron swa hwite swa snaw [L. alba sicut nix]. OE tr. Wonders of East (Tiber.) §21. 196 Beoð þa earan swiðe leohte & hi beoð an lichoman swa hwite swa meolc [L. quasi lacteo]. a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 83 (MED) Ðanne wurð ic iclansed of alle mine sennes, and hwittere ðane ani snaw. c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Cambr.) (1901) 15 (MED) He was whit so þe flur [a1350 Harl. so whit so eny lylye flour]. c1300 St. Faith (Laud) 80 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 85 (MED) A coluere þare cam, so ȝwijt so milk. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10380 Ten lambes, quitte als milk. a1425 (?a1350) Seven Sages (Galba) (1907) 78 (MED) Þe thrid maister was litel man Faire of chere and white als swan. a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. 2081 (MED) Scheo hadde a mayden childe: Sabren hit highte, as whit as glas. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) viii. 232 Hawbrekis, that war quhit as flour. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Husbandman l. 2395 in Poems (1981) 89 Quhyte as ane neip and round als as ane seill. 1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 185 A saill als quhite as blossum vpon spray. 1512–13 Syr Degore (de Worde) sig. A The kynge had..A doughter as whyte as whalles bone. 1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay 63 Giff thay be reid as purpur neuertheles yai sal be quhit as wow. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A3v Vpon a lowly Asse more white then snow, Yet she much whiter. 1651 C. Gerbier Elogium Heroinum 75 Their Necks as white as Snow, their Breast as pure as Allabaster. 1727 J. Gay New Song Similes in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. 210 As smooth as Glass, as white as Curds. 1753 J. Collier Ess. Art of Tormenting i. ii. 46 She..looks as white as a cloth. 1837 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 48 118 The whole surface of the body was covered with very minute scales as white as flour, so that the patient was named the white man, ‘hvita man’. 1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay iv. 63 I am as white as driven snow compared to some blackguards. 1897 H. Caine Christian iii. xii. 311 The man..turned white as a ghost. 1923 Humorist 29 Sept. 228/1 There he was leaning against the mantelpiece, as white as a sheet. 1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 6 Dec. b1 I went in the bathroom and I started crying and then I looked in the mirror and I was white as a ghost. 2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 Oct. d8/5 A coiling flower, as white as porcelain, wound on a vine around a black urn. < as lemmas |
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