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单词 pale as milk
释义

pale as milk

English

Adjective

pale as milk (not comparable)

  1. (simile) Very pale.
    • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. [] (First Quarto), London: [] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, [], published 1600, OCLC 1041029189, [Act V, scene i]:
      O ſiſters three, come, come, to mee, / With hands as pale as milke, / Lay them in gore, ſince you haue ſhore / With ſheeres, his threede of ſilke.
    • 1990 December, Stephen King, “The Moving Finger”, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction; republished in Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Signet, published 1994, 1993, page 233:
      Très amusant, cheri.[sic] You look as pale as milk. Are you coming down with something?

See also

  • milk-white

Anagrams

  • plasmalike
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