英语词汇plain as the nose on your face的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	plain as the nose on your face
词源	plain as the nose on your face. Shakespeare used the gist of this expression in Two Gentlemen of Verona (1591), but the full phrase wasn’t recorded until 1655 in a work by British author Henry More: “As plain as the nose on a man’s face.” This phrase has been commonly used to describe anything that is perfectly obvious, the nose standing out farther than any other feature of the face.
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