The reason for America's present activist foreign policy is as plain as a pikestaff and is known to everybody. |
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It is characteristic of thoughtful people that they don't understand some things that to others are as plain as a pikestaff. |
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Good god, man, she's plain as a pikestaff with a wardrobe fresh out of the Salvation Army. |
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Stick your head through and hey presto, it looks to have been impaled on a pikestaff above York's royal gateway. |
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Now there may be some at St. Blogs to whom it is plain as a pikestaff what the bishop needs to be doing. |
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But as someone who spent most of his adult life in policing, two issues are as plain as a pikestaff. |
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It was as plain as a pikestaff that school was not really going to work out. |
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Skewered on a pikestaff high above the city, the silenced heads spoke eloquently of the fate awaiting those who dared plot against rulers of city and country. |
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The judge will refrain from any references to his quill, or his gavel, or his pikestaff, and allow the defendant to be released to spread its insidious gospel. |
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It is as plain as a pikestaff that you had too much to drink. |
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But after the battering that it has taken this week, it is as plain as a pikestaff that most observers will be lining up with the Department of Finance on this one. |
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The attraction of pods for the makers is as plain as a pikestaff – they provide a steady source of income, like an insurance policy but without the possibility of having to pay out. |
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