| 释义 |
of the first water1(Of a diamond or pearl) of the greatest brilliance and transparency: a gem of the first water 1.1Used to refer to a person or thing that is unsurpassed of their kind, typically in an undesirable way: she was a bore of the first water...- According to her description the losing candidate was a ‘lush,’ a falling down soaking drunk of the first water.
- I will just say, however, that anyone who gets a tattoo from another culture with that much resonance in that culture without every having met someone from that culture is a schmuck of the first water.
- This is a magickal artifact of the first water, so well known that it was credited as the device through which Dee divined the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
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