It seems to be the commercial name of a color, not an idiom (since you have supplied no context), but I suppose it is very white, yes. It originates in the traditional white wedding dress to signify the virginity of the bride, I presume. 'Snow

ccan virgin white be used to describe whitest whites? what other idioms are there for this?

Hi Would you say that the following (yellow) sentence is correct? What does this expression/idiom date from? It dates from the mid-1800s. Thanks, Tom

Hi A few weeks ago I watched a program on TV about martial arts. The coach (American guy) once said a sentence using, as far as I remember words: "white on the rice" , but I don't remember exactly, I suppose it's some idiom

Will you please correct the following. Thank you. “Do you know why you fall down sometimes,” uncle asked me once. I blinked and kept mum for a while. For at the time I had failed in my graduation examination and thought uncle would have

Hi, I'm a student of English who needs your help with some idioms in order to analyse them for my graduation paper. The topic of my research is synonymy among idiomatic expressions. For the purpose of this research I have composed a

He was drowned in the raging torrent. His speech was drowned by the rabble. His plea was drowned in/by the clatter of hooves. It seems possible to me that we're confusing "drowned" as a metaphor with " drowned out " as an

Used without a question mark, "Was my face red!" would almost certainly have an exclamation point. It's a stand-alone exclamation expressing extreme embarrassment, usually over some stupid error of great magnitude. Of course it may

Hi, would someone please tell me what's the difference between "possess" and "be possessed of" if I want to express the meaning of "have ... as an attribute, skill, etc." He possesses a red car. He is

"Don't you tell me you're going to bail out on me, aren't you/ do you? I would not add the rhetorical question after a complex sentence. It is too confusing. You're going to cop bail out on me, aren't you? The negative