clear as day |
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| Lexical unit types: | simile |
| Topics: | describing things, events and actions |
| Source domains: | light and darkness |
| Particles: | - |
| Similes: | as |
| Verbs: | - |
| CEFR Levels: | - | Synomyms: | - | Antonyms: | - | Definition: | very easy to see or understand | Examples: |
I can remember it as clear as day. I saw him clear as day. They were talking quietly but I could hear them clear as day. Read the text, it is clear as day.
Croatian: jasno kao dan; jasno kao pekmez; jasno kao sunce; jasno kao suza |
Motivation: |
the conceptual metaphor KNOWING IS SEEING Kövecses, Zoltán. 2010. Metaphor: A Practical Introduction. 2nd Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
Slične leksičke jedinice: sharp as a knife, the mouth of a river, the head of a table, slow as a snail, different as night and day, clear as crystal, clear as a bell, the head of a page, the neck of a bottle/guitar, red as blood, the heart of a city, the hands of a clock, white as snow, the mouth of a tunnel/cave, the legs of a chair/table, black as night, the foot of a hill, the foot of a page, easy as pie, cold as ice, grow up, under your nose