![]() ![]() I've been off work but I've got a clean bill of health now. are meticulous about tidiness, there will never be anything just scattered around. It’s got more things in it than Macy’s window -Noël CowardĪ certificate saying that a person, the crew of ship etc is entirely healthy ( especially after being ill). of its monks, but cleaning is greatly valued in Japanese Buddhism in. The water’s (of swimming pool) like bouillabaisse.Spotless as naked innocence -John Smith.Immaculate as a laboratory -Ben Ames Williams.Fingernails … like watch crystals -Walker Percy.Dust balls sail like galleons on the dry sea -Robert Irwin.Dirty as a glass roof in a train station -Leonard Cohen Cleanliness and tidiness is an important part of our testimony to others.Clean as water pouring from a silver tap -Tennessee Williams.Clean as new grass when the old grass burns -Carl Sandburg.(The woman was as) clean as a white rose in the morning gauze of dew -Carl Sandburg.Clean as a toilet bowl -Lincoln Kirstein.Clean as a rose is after rain -James Whitcomb Riley.Clean as a piglet bathed in milk -Mary Gordon.Just plain “Clean as a whistle,” is said to stem from the fact that it takes a clean dry whistle to produce a good sound. Clean as a pig’s whistle -American colloquialism, attributed to New England.Clean as a new pin of every penny of debt -Sir Walter ScottĪ much used simile to describe anyone who is neatly and cleanly dressed.Pilcher uses the “Clean as a sheet” simile to describe the smoothness and cleanliness of sand when the tide is out in a story entitled The White Birds. Clean as a newly laundered sheet -Rosamund Pilcher.(His heart felt) clean as a new green leaf -Stephen Vincent Benet.Clean as a hound’s tooth -American colloquialism, attributed to New England Discover the best Japanese proverbs on life, love or the passing of time and open yourself to Japanese wisdom to perceive the world differently.Clean as a convent cell -Vita Sackville-West.Clean as a bleached bone -Wallace Stegner.Here, we will share 10 of those fantastic capsules of wisdom. They convey a serene and patient world view. Depending on how it is used, this phrase can mean a few different things, but it is mostly used in the positive sense to say that hard work pays off. (Her face) clean and white as a handkerchief -John Ashbery That is why most of these proverbs use few words and leave much to the imagination. The literal translation of this proverb is ‘what goes around, comes around’. ![]() Clean and well-kept as a cemetery -Karl Shapiro.Clean and smooth as a peeled onion -O. ![]()
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