Clean Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Clean


Clean as a die. —Anonymous	1
Clean as a Dutch oven. —Anonymous	2
Clean as a new pin. —Anonymous	3
Clean as a pebble. —Anonymous	4
Clean as crystal. —Anonymous	5
Clean as light. —Anonymous	6
Cleaner than our sister the water. —Anonymous	7
Clean as virgin silver. —Arabian Nights	8
Clean as sifted corn. —Aristophanes	9
As clean as a Flemish interior. —Honoré de Balzac	10
Clean as a maiden’s honor. —Björnstjerne Björnson	11
Clean as a whistle. —John Byrom	12
Clean as a [new] penny. —John Gay	13
Clean as a beaver. —Bret Harte	14
Clean as a maid from guile and fleshy sin. —Robert Stephen Hawker	15
Clean, As if o’erwashed with Hippocrene. —Robert Herrick	16
Clean as running water in a cress-fringed brook. —Edwin Leibfreed	17
Clean as a red-hot poker. —George Meredith	18
Clean as the bright from the black. —George Meredith	19
His work is as clean as silver lace. —Osmanli Proverb	20
As clean as a leek. —Scottish Proverb	21
Clean as a rose is after rain. —James Whitcomb Riley	22
Clean as a hound’s tooth. —Theodore Roosevelt	23
Clean as a sound sheep’s heart. —William Shakespeare	24
Clean as a sponge wipes a chalk problem from a blackboard. —J. Russell Smith	25
Clean of cloud As though day’s heart were proud And heaven’s were glad. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	26
Clean as blood of babes. —Alfred Tennyson	27
Clean as the carving knife chops the carrot. —William Makepeace Thackeray	28