naked as the day you were born

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naked as the day you were born

A baby lies naked as the day you were born in a soft crib.

Definition

Adjective Phrase: - Completely nude; wearing no clothes at all: This idiom describes a state of total nudity, comparing a person's current state to how they were when they were first born.

Usage

This phrase is used to emphasize that someone is completely unclothed. It is often used in a humorous, descriptive, or slightly euphemistic way. - After the wave knocked him over, he stood up on the beach, naked as the day he was born. - The toddler ran through the sprinklers, naked as the day she was born.

Advanced Usage
  • The phrase can be used in various tenses by changing the pronoun and verb to match the subject (e.g., "naked as the day I was born," "naked as the day they were born").
  • It is primarily used for people, not objects.
Variants and Related Words
  • Naked as a jaybird: (Idiom) An alternative idiom with the same meaning of being completely nude.
  • In one's birthday suit: (Idiom) A common humorous synonym for being naked.
  • Stark naked: (Adjective) Completely and obviously naked.
Synonyms
  • Stark naked
  • In the nude
  • Unclothed
  • Bare
Related Idioms
  • In one's birthday suit: Wearing no clothes.
    • He answered the door in his birthday suit.
naked as the day you were born

A baby lies naked as the day you were born in a soft crib.

Adjective
  1. as naked as at birth

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