What does the expression 'It's as clear as mud' mean?
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Firstly, it's not just an Australian expression...it's worldwide.\n\nClear as mud means simply means you didn't understand even after it was explained.  Someone will explain or describe something but it still does not make sense.  Using the phrase "clear as mud" is kind of a sarcasm as mud is not clear and neither was what they just said.
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The Dictionary of Cliches" by James Rogers (Ballantine Books, New York, 1985) says "thick as thieves" means "intimate, conspiratorially close." And it also refers to an 1833 quote -- from "The Parson's Daughter" by Theodore E. Hook. "She and my wife are thick as thieves, as the proverb goes."
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Alice is correct\n\nIf I saw those words with no context, I would translate it to mean:\n"Clarity comes through pain."\n\nclaritas has a deeper meaning of being clear and bright like the light that shines through a diamond.  source: Vergil's Aeneid\n\nadvenit means to arrive come or happen\nwe get the word advent from this
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It means, basically, the beach has enough sand as it is...it doesn't need any more.  Like, if someone was whining to you about their problems, you might use this phase...as if to say, "I have enough problems of my own, I don't need yours too!"
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explain the something very clearly
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Originally, the phrase went happy as a clam in the mud at high water. The phrase is an Americanism, dating to at least the 1830s. Over the years, the phrase was clipped and the dropping of the latter half resulted in the confusion
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Clear means it can be seen through. In chemistry this is a distinction from 'opaque', 'cloudy' or 'turbid' meaining that the substanbce can't be readily seen through. \n\nColourless means just what it says: it lacks colour.\n\nTo illustrate, pure water is clear. If you add a single drop of milk or a few drops of kerosene and shake it up the water becomes cloudy. \n\nWater with a drop of food colouring added is clear. You can see right through it. But it can still be bright red or green despite remaining clear. It sure isn't colourless but it is definitley clear.
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it means "i like what i see"
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Sure.  Another way of saying it is, "It appears that...."
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It means a quotation or saying
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Means water is highly transparent like a crystal; crystal,  ofcourse, a transparent crystal.
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ANSWER: "All intents and purposes" is correct.  The phrase (which means "practically") is a shortening of the legal phrase "to all intents, constructions, and purposes" (found in an act adopted under Henry VIII in 1547).  \n\nThe corruption "for all intensive purposes" is frequently reported. \n\nFrom "Alternate usage dictionary" repository.\nhttp://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxtoalli.html
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I haven't been able to find it in the cliche or phrase dictionaries.  I've seen it in books and usually it meant "searched exhaustively."\nAn example is "The detective really covered the waterfront, and has no further clues to pursue."
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I have seen it used, but cannot find it in any dictionary.  It seems to be used "as in a liberal sense" or using prudence in a poetic license context.
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it means fast as in right way.
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It means sensible, practical, unpretentious