单词 | pure and simple |
释义 | Example sentences from the Web for pure and simple
pure and simpleSEE SYNONYMS FOR pure and simple ON THESAURUS.COM No more and no less, plainly so, as in This so-called educational video is really a game, pure and simple. This expression is very nearly redundant, since pure and simple here mean “plain” and “unadorned.” Oscar Wilde played on it in The Importance of Being Earnest (1895): “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” [Second half of 1800s] Words nearby pure and simplepurdah, purdonium, Purdy, pure, pure absence, pure and simple, pure as the driven snow, pureblood, purebred, pure culture, pure democracy The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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