PLAIN AS DAY Definition & Meaning

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Idioms and Phrases

Also, plain as the nose on your face . Very obvious, quite clear, as in It's plain as day that they must sell their house before they can buy another , or It's plain as the nose on your face that she's lying . These similes have largely replaced the earlier plain as a packstaff or pikestaff , from the mid-1500s, alluding to the stick on which a peddler carried his wares over his shoulder. The first term, from the late 1800s, is probably a shortening of plain as the sun at midday ; the variant dates from the late 1600s.

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The opposition to “DEI” that occupies the White House is a smokescreen for a step in exactly the opposite direction, plain as day: make sure the rich get richer, and that no pesky standards of fairness or rules get in the way.

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Baker pushes the comedy, but, just as with Ani, the injustice of it all is plain as day.

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“Blake absolutely stole the Msaidizi. It’s plain as day! We’re gonna remove the Gift from him and wipe his memory. The children are guilty too. They must be apprehended immediately!”

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There, plain as day, was the hilt of the knight’s sword, sitting securely in the scabbard strapped to Jack’s shoulder.

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Yet it was plain as day that Biden has been making the big decisions all along, whether it was pulling out of Afghanistan—against the advice of his foreign policy team—or insisting that America continue to assist Ukraine.

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