“Clear as day”in other languages
Completely obvious.
English
German
Italian
Spanish
Same idea, different pictures
English and Spanish choose the clearest things around: daylight, and water, más claro que el agua. Italian says non ci piove, it doesn't rain on it: a point so solid that nothing can spoil it.
German is the strange one: klar wie Kloßbrühe, clear as dumpling broth, which is usually cloudy. It was most likely said with a wink at first, and the joke stuck.
More sayings in other languages
- Cold hard cash
- Come hell or high water
- Come home to roost
- Come what may
- Mad as a hatter
- Cool one's heels
- Cost an arm and a leg
- Not give a hoot
- Count on the fingers of one hand