| 单词 | whiter than white |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhiter than white P5. whiter than white: extremely white; frequently figurative: morally pure, having an untarnished reputation.Popularized in the 20th cent. as an advertising slogan for Persil washing powder. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [adjective] > brilliantly white whiter than white1597 incandent1854 1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. D Teaching the sheets a whiter hew then white. View more context for this quotation] 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. lxxi. 104 This Iacint is of a pleasant white colour tending to yellownesse, tipped about the hollow part with white, whiter than white it selfe. 1658 J. Mennes & J. Smith Wit Restor'd 119 Whiter than white, if you would pourtray ought, Display her neck pure as the purest thought. 1826 M. S. Stanhope Almack's (ed. 2) III. ii. 82 The first thing I saw was my Lord, fast asleep, in his gouty chair; Lady Jemima, whiter than white, singing some lack-a-daisical ballad, very much out of tune..and Miss Bevel. 1872 J. Hatton Valley Poppies I. xiii. 232 Her white teeth were whiter than white against the contrast of her lips and her brown glowing cheeks. 1949 D. Smith I capture Castle (U.K. ed.) vii. 95 The strangeness of her face: that look she has of belonging to a whiter-than-white race. 1962 Daily Tel. 28 June 1/3 He is said to have said that the report made out the BBC to be ‘whiter than white’. 1974 ‘A. Garve’ File on Lester vii. 31 Where their leaders are concerned, the masses are puritan—they expect standards of personal behaviour whiter than white. 1979 K. Bonfiglioli After You with Pistol xxii. 180 My knuckles were now Whiter-Than-White. 2009 Daily Tel. 1 Apr. 22/3 We are trapped in a revolving door. A government sinks into sleaze. An opposition party promises that it will not just be whiter than white; it will be seen to be whiter than white. < as lemmas |
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