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pure and simple
Idioms and Phrases
No more and no less, plainly so, as in This so-called educational video is really a game, pure and simple . This expression is very nearly redundant, since pure and simple here mean âplainâ and âunadorned.â Oscar Wilde played on it in The Importance of Being Earnest (1895): âThe truth is rarely pure and never simple.â [Second half of 1800s]Example Sentences
It is a vote suppression bill, pure and simple.
âHe is saying they follow the law pure and simple,â Shapiro said.
She added: "He focused repeatedly on what he said was 'wrong' with me. His behaviour was threatening and upsetting. It was bullying, pure and simple."
They lost because of their clueless campaign, pure and simple.
Another, from early 2022, called the group âpsychopaths, pure and simpleâ.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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