单词 | naked as a stone |
释义 | > as lemmasnaked as a stone (also rock) P3. naked as a stone (also rock). Now rare. ΚΠ c1450 in R. L. Greene Early Eng. Carols (1935) 230 (MED) Quan Adam hadde that appil ete..He stod as nakyd as a ston. 1762 J. Hall-Stevenson Crazy Tales xi. 109 Both male and female, saint and sinner, Strip themselves naked as a stone. 1837 W. Wordsworth Mem. Tour Italy iv Those old credulities,..Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of History, stript naked as a rock? 1913 J. Stephens Here are Ladies 139 He was as naked as a stone, or an eel, or a pot, or a new-born babe. He was very naked. < as lemmas |
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