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naked as a jaybird
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*naked as a jaybird
Cliché naked; bare. (*Also: as ~.) Two-year-old Matilda escaped from her nurse, who was bathing her, and ran out naked as a jaybird into the dining room. Uncle John sometimes spends a whole day walking around his house as naked as a jaybird.
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By the time we made it into the bedroom Mother was laid out on the bed, naked as a jaybird save the gold winking back at us from her throat.
We Were Hardly Angels by Sloss, Aria Beth / Harvard Review
He put Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden naked as jaybirds, and they probably would have been naked all their lives if they hadn't disobeyed him.
The Natural by Helen Rittelmeyer / www.Culture11.com
I now delight in imagining Fred and Ginger performing "Never Gonna Dance," their brilliant, melancholy dance from Swing Time, naked as jaybirds.
Renegades in birthday suits: experimental dancers get naked by Parker, David / Dance Magazine
 
 
 
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