Meaning of plain as Salisbury | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of plain as day.

UK, dated, informal, not-comparable

Examples

“‘Your chummage ticket,’ replied Mr. Roker; ‘you’re up to that?’ ‘Not quite,’ replied Mr. Pickwick, with a smile⟳. ‘Why,’ said Mr. Roker, ‘it’s as plain as Salisbury. You’ll have⟳ a chummage ticket upon twenty-seven in the third, and them as is in the room will be your chums.’”

“If I can't show⟳ you I've come⟳ by them honestly, perhaps you'd rather not have⟳ them, though, if nicely cooked and dished up, I'll be bound they can be made to prove⟳, as plain as Salisbury, that you've no more right to the estate — nor to the name⟳ of Kerr, for all that — than that gentleman yonder.”

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