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white as a sheet
Idioms and Phrases
Very 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.Example Sentences
For example, the line: "You've gone white as a sheet!" has now been rewritten to "you've gone still as a statue!" and the friendly giant no longer wears a "black" cloak.
But the court also hears from his ex girlfriend, who says he was "white as a sheet" after that BBC interview.
One of Packer's former partners told the murder trial that he was "white as a sheet" after the second interview.
The trial earlier heard that Mr Packer was "white as a sheet" after being interviewed by Ms Poling about Ms Caldwell's murder.
Thorn just nodded, but her face was white as a sheet.
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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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