| 单词 | as flat as one's hand |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas flat as one's hand m. In comparisons, as as bare as one's hand, as flat as one's hand, etc. ΚΠ c1475 (c1420) J. Page Siege of Rouen (Egerton) (1876) 4 (MED) Buschys and brerys and boughys they brende, And made hyt as bare as my honde. 1606 A. Craig Amorose Songes sig. Gvii His face as haireles as his hand. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. iii. viii. 337 A base vnder-Barber comes vnto mee.., and with his Razor, makes my head and Beard: as bare as my hand. 1697 J. Vanbrugh Æsop: 2nd Pt. (ed. 2) 9 He has a pair of Cheeks like two Bladders; a Nose as flat as your Hand, and a Forehead like a Bull. 1731 tr. Comte de Forbin Memoirs I. 252 They strip'd me as bare as my Hand. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 30 By that time she had taken the second pill, Sir, by Heaven! she was as smooth as my hand. 1876 R. Browning Nat. Magic i The room was as bare as your hand. 1883 Harper's Mag. Dec. 147/1 That coast..is flat as your hand, as we say. 1915 Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen's Mag. June (advt.) (verso front cover) For eight or nine years I have been a bald-headed man; the top of my head was as bare as my hand. 1998 R. Price Roxanna Slade ii. 63 We stood on a low rock ledge maybe eight or ten feet above a plain as flat as your hand so far as I could see. < as lemmas |
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