英语词汇“stiff as a pikestaff”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. In proverbial phrases, as the type of something plain, straight, or obvious, as stiff as a pikestaff, clear as a pikestaff, to call a pikestaff a pikestaff, etc. Now usually in plain as a pikestaff: see plain adj.² Phrases 1a.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > plainness > use plain language [verb (intransitive)]

to call a spade a spade1542

to call a pikestaff a pikestaff1591

to call a spade a (bloody) shovel1919

the world > space > relative position > posture > upright or erect posture > [adverb] > very stiff

stiff as a pikestaff1851

1591 R. Greene Notable Discouery of Coosenage f. 3 A newe game..that hath no policie nor knauery, but plaine as a pike staffe.

1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth III. 22 When a Reason's as plain as a Pike-staff.

1833 J. S. Sands Poet. Effusions 81 I'm sure that's her (wi' that he rikes't aff The rock) as clear as ony pikestaff.

1839 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch (rev. ed.) xxiv. 306 Mr. Batter..looked as prejinct as a pikestaff.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xvii. 65 When will you acknowledge that two and two make four, and call a pikestaff a pikestaff?

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick iv. 30 Sat up in bed stiff as a pike-staff.

1873 A. Trollope Eustace Diamonds III. lxxii. 250 ‘It is all as clear as a pike-staff, John.’... ‘Quite clear, I should say.’

1995 M. Amis Information (1996) 276 It's as clear as a pikestaff, isn't it.

单词	stiff as a pikestaff
释义	> as lemmas stiff as a pikestaff 2. In proverbial phrases, as the type of something plain, straight, or obvious, as stiff as a pikestaff, clear as a pikestaff, to call a pikestaff a pikestaff, etc. Now usually in plain as a pikestaff: see plain adj.² Phrases 1a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > plainness > use plain language [verb (intransitive)] to call a spade a spade1542 to call a pikestaff a pikestaff1591 to call a spade a (bloody) shovel1919 the world > space > relative position > posture > upright or erect posture > [adverb] > very stiff stiff as a pikestaff1851 1591 R. Greene Notable Discouery of Coosenage f. 3 A newe game..that hath no policie nor knauery, but plaine as a pike staffe. 1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth III. 22 When a Reason's as plain as a Pike-staff. 1833 J. S. Sands Poet. Effusions 81 I'm sure that's her (wi' that he rikes't aff The rock) as clear as ony pikestaff. 1839 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch (rev. ed.) xxiv. 306 Mr. Batter..looked as prejinct as a pikestaff. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xvii. 65 When will you acknowledge that two and two make four, and call a pikestaff a pikestaff? 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick iv. 30 Sat up in bed stiff as a pike-staff. 1873 A. Trollope Eustace Diamonds III. lxxii. 250 ‘It is all as clear as a pike-staff, John.’... ‘Quite clear, I should say.’ 1995 M. Amis Information (1996) 276 It's as clear as a pikestaff, isn't it. extracted from pikestaffn.¹ < as lemmas
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