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naked as a jaybird



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Idioms and Phrases

Bare, unclothed, as in I came straight out of the shower, naked as a jaybird . This simile replaced the 19th-century naked as a robin and is equally unclear, since neither bird is normally stripped of its feathers. Further, the bird it refers to is more often called simply “jay” rather than “jaybird,” yet the latter is always part of the simile. [c. 1940]
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Example Sentences

Shocking some local Girl Scouts on a nature field trip -- maybe they’ll learn the expression, “naked as a jaybird” -- he grabs their blanket and heads for civilization.

The folks had told the white folks I wasn't no account, so I couldn't get nothing only just a little fat meat and bread, and I got as naked as a jaybird.

The people in the house came up and found me naked as a jaybird, looking in every corner of the room for something to cover myself with.

She smelled sweet, but she was as naked as a jaybird.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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