| 单词 | as clean, clear, dry as a whistle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas clean, clear, dry as a whistle (b) In comparisons, e.g. as clean, clear, dry as a whistle (often with play on other senses of the adjectives: see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > extremely > specific emphasizing a quality as the skin between one's brows1575 as clean, clear, dry as a whistle1786 1786 R. Burns Poems 31 Her mutchkin stowp as toom's a whissle. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) ‘As clean as a whistle’, a proverbial simile, signifying completely, entirely. 1842 J. Wilson Recreations Christopher North I. 84 By the time we reach the manse we are as dry as a whistle. 1849 W. S. Mayo Kaloolah (1850) v. 41 A first rate shot;..head taken off as clean as a whistle. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xv. 136 You're as clean as a whistle. 1880 A. Gray Lett. (1893) II. 710 My throat was as clear as a whistle. 1889 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xlii We've been sold as clean as a whistle. < as lemmas |
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