| 单词 | plain as day |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplain as day(light) b. †plain as a packsaddle, †plain as Salisbury (punning on Salisbury Plain), plain as print, plain as the nose on (†in) one's face, plain as day(light), etc. See also Dunstable n. 1, as plain as pottage at pottage n. Phrases. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > manifestness > [adjective] sutelc897 openeOE ebera975 graithc1325 broadc1374 plainc1375 clearc1380 grossc1380 manifest1385 notoire1409 patent1508 sensible?1531 discovered1537 plain as a pikestaff (also packstaff, pad-staff)1542 palpable1545 demonstrative1552 plain as the nose on (in) one's face1560 illustrate1562 appearing1566 notorious1581 obvious1583 unshadowed1593 transparent1597 liquid1610 visible1614 pellucid1644 illustrious1654 apertive1661 conspectable1727 suggestive1806 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes ii. f. 179v Thom trouthe, or plain Sarisbuirie.] 1560 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique (new ed.) ii. f. 72 An honeste true dealyng seruaunte out of doubte, plaine as a packesaddell..though his witte was simple. 1613 E. Cary Trag. Mariam iv. iv It is as plaine as water, and deniall Makes of thy falsehood but a greater triall. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 52 And why sir must they so? The why is plaine, as way to Parish Church. View more context for this quotation 1695 W. Congreve Love for Love iv. i. 60 As witness my Hand..in great Letters. Why, 'tis as plain as the Nose in one's Face. a1704 T. Brown Wks. (1760) I. 40 Since you see 'tis as plain as a cow's thumb. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews II. iii. v. 91 It is as plain as Daylight to those who converse in the World, as I have done these three Years. View more context for this quotation 1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. x. 47 'Twas plain as the sun at noon-day, he would pocket the expence of the licence, ten times told the very first year. 1802 Deb. Congr. U.S. 25 Feb. (1850) 759 As plain as a turnpike. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xli. 447 ‘Why,’ said Mr. Roker, ‘it's as plain as Salisbury.’ 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xi. 121 It was plain as the sun at midday. 1895 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 581 A look which said as plain as print, ‘Have you not had enough?’ 1910 E. M. Forster Howards End xxiv. 202 His objections to the house were plain as daylight now. 1937 D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon ix. 200 I came in nine o'clock from fetchin' a pail o' water and I sees you plain as the nose on my face a-talkin' to him at this very winder. 1953 M. Renault Charioteer v. 103 As they turned Andrew looked from one to the other, his pleasure in their amity as plain as print. 1994 K. Kelly Out of Control xi. 186 It was as plain as daylight that personal computers and their eventual high-powered offspring would reconfigure the world to our specifications. < as lemmas |
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