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Very pale in the face, as in She was white as a sheet after that near encounter. This simile, dating from about 1600, survives despite the fact that bedsheets now come in all colors. Words nearby white as a sheetwhite alder, white alert, white alkali, white ant, white area, white as a sheet, white ash, White Australia policy, white bacon, whitebait, white bass The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |