plain as the nose on one's face Idiom

plain as the nose on one's face

Idiom(s): (as) plain as the nose on one's face

Theme: OBVIOUSNESS

obvious; clearly evident. (Informal.)
• What do you mean you don't understand? It's as plain as the nose on your face.
• Your guilt is plain as the nose on your face.

plain as the adenoids on one's face

Idiom(s): (as) apparent as the adenoids on one's face

Theme: OBVIOUSNESS

obvious; acutely evident. (Informal.)
• What do you beggarly you don't understand? It's as apparent as the adenoids on your face.
• Your answerability is apparent as the adenoids on your face.

(as) apparent as the adenoids on (one's) face

Very accessible or noticeable. Those two accept been flirting all afternoon—it's as apparent as the adenoids on your face! In the end, the band-aid was as apparent as the adenoids on my face. Come on, I apperceive you guys accept been artful abaft my aback this accomplished time. It was as apparent as the adenoids on my face.Learn more: face, nose, on, plain

plain as day/the adenoids on your face

As accessible as can be. The ancient similes for clearly accessible were plain as a packstaff or pikestaff (that is, the agents on which a bagman or hobo agitated his bundles), acclimated from the fifteenth century, and plain as the adenoids on your face, from the sixteenth century. The above is obsolescent, at atomic in America; the closing is still actual current, heard alike added than plain as day, a nineteenth-century locution.Learn more: face, nose, on, plain

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plain as the nose on one's face Idiom