| 词汇 | close as a coat of paint |
| 词源 | close as a coat of paint. Very close, as close as a coat of paint is to the wall or the skin is to a grape, etc. Heard several times in early 2004, as in “He kept close to him as a coat of paint.” Ap- parently a variation of close as wallpaper. |
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