as the skin between one's brows and variants: (used adverbially as an intensifier of an adjective) completely, utterly, absolutely. Obsolete.
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释义 | the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > extremely > specific emphasizing a quality (2) as the skin between one's brows1575 as the skin between one's brows and variants: (used adverbially as an intensifier of an adjective) completely, utterly, absolutely. Obsolete. as clean, clear, dry as a whistle1786 Phrases, etc. In comparisons, e.g. as clean, clear, dry as a whistle (often with play on other senses of the adjectives: see quots.). |
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