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(as) naked as a jaybird adjective phrase similie
Not wearing any clothes.
She walked in on me when I was as naked as a jaybird.
When I was a kid, I used to jump into the backyard swimming pool, naked as a jaybird.
He was stripped naked as a jaybird and left in a cell after they found him hide weapons in his clothes.
Naked
1. Used to talk about a wide happy smile
2. Used to describe someone naked
This simile is American in origin, but its origin is as unclear as the older British "naked as a robin". It appears in print from the mid-twentieth century on. For example, D. Delman used it in Sudden Death (1972): “The corpus was as naked as a jaybird.”
Do you see anything wrong?
This phrase is used to describe something very modern or updated or something that no longer looks like what it's used to.
It has been a long time since I left my high school, and now I have to admit that it's certainly not your father's high school anymore.
