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be as white as a sheet

to be very pale, usually because you are frightened or ill. She was trembling all over and as white as a sheet.

See also: white

be three sheets to the wind (old-fashioned)

to be drunk. Bobby was already three sheets to the wind when we arrived.

See also: three, wind

a clean sheet

1. if you are given a clean sheet, you can start something again, and all the problems caused by you or other people in the past will be forgotten. I want us to forget all the arguing of the past, and start the New Year with a clean sheet.

2. if a football team or a goalkeeper (= the player who stands in the goal) has a clean sheet, they do not allow the other team to score any goals. United kept a clean sheet in an away match for the first time this season.

See also: clean

a rap sheet (American, informal)

information kept by the police about someone's criminal activities. The gunman's rap sheet had a long list of weapons and narcotics offenses.

See also: rap

a scandal sheet (American & Australian, informal)

a newspaper or magazine that contains many articles about shocking or surprising events. It's just a scandal sheet - full of murders, beatings, suicides and little else.