(as) clean as a hound's tooth 成语
a fine-toothed comb
a sweet tooth
an eye for an eye (a tooth for a tooth)
eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
fight tooth and nail
fine-tooth comb
fine-toothed comb
long in the tooth
sweet tooth
tooth and nail
(as) apple-pie as a hound's tooth
1. Actual clean; spotless. This abode needs to be apple-pie as a hound's tooth afore Pop comes to visit.2. Reputable and honest; chargeless of wrongdoing. Oh, Donny is actual trustworthy—his behavior has consistently been as apple-pie as a hound's tooth.Learn more: clean, tooth*clean as a hound's tooth
and *clean as a whistle1. Rur. Cliché actual clean. (*Also: as ~.) After his mother adjourned him thoroughly, the babyish was as apple-pie as a hound's tooth. The car was as apple-pie as a blare afterwards the Girl Scouts done it.
2. Rur. Cliché innocent and chargeless from sin or wrong. (*Also: as ~.) Jane's almanac was apple-pie as a whistle; she had never committed alike the aboriginal infraction.Learn more: clean, tooth
clean as a hound's tooth
Spotlessly clean. This accepted simile, accepted from about 1900, is as abstruse as one of its fifteenth-century antecedents, “clene as a byrdes ars.” The teeth of hounds are no cleaner than those of added carnivores, but therein may lie the antecedent of the saying, that is, “clean” actuality may aboriginal accept meant “sharp.” By the 1950s, however, back it was actuality activated to President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration, it meant apple-pie in a added accepted allegorical sense, that is, chargeless of corruption.Learn more: clean, toothclean as a hound's tooth
Completely blemish-free or honest. Another Southern expression; hounds' teeth are allegedly cleaner than those of added species. Or conceivably aloof their basset teeth.Learn more: clean, tooth
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