| 词汇 | as white as a sheet |
| 释义 | (redirected from as white as a sheet)(as) white as a sheetExtremely and unnaturally pale, as due to fear or illness. His face went as white as a sheet when he saw the burglar in his house. Do you feel all right? Your face is white as a sheet! *white as a sheetand *white as a ghost; *white as snow; *white as the driven snow[of someone] extremely pale, as if frightened. (*Also: as ~.) Marilyn turned as white as a sheet when the policeman told her that her son had been in a car wreck. Did something scare you? You're white as a sheet! Jane made up the bed with her best linen sheets, which are always as white as snow. We have a new kitten whose fur is white as the driven snow. white as a sheetVery 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. white as a sheetorwhite as a ghostIf someone looks as white as a sheet or as white as a ghost, they look very pale because they are frightened, shocked or ill. When I saw him his face was as white as a sheet and he was crying. She was as white as a ghost and trembling all over. (as) ˌwhite as a ˈsheet/ˈghost(informal) very pale in the face, because of illness, fear or shock: She went as white as a sheet when she heard the news.white as a sheetPale in the face. This simile dates from Shakespeare’s time; he wrote, “And whiter than the sheets!” in Cymbeline (2.2). The term was repeated by Henry Fielding, Frederick Marryat, Artemus Ward, and Thomas Hardy, among many others, and remains current. |
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