英语词汇“of the first water”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

of the first water

1(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.

See parent entry: water

单词	of the first water
释义	of the first water 1(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. See parent entry: water
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