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Meaning of a yard of pump water | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

Something which is very straight and very thin.

UK, US, dialectal

Examples

“as/so thin as a yard of pump water; as skinny as a yard of pump-water; as straight as a yard of pump-water; like a yard of pump water”

“For quotations using this term, see Citations:a yard of pump water.”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

a year and a day a- -ing A-1 A-106 A-109 A-2