crystal clear

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic,simile)Completelyclear(in various senses).Synonym:clear as crystalWithoutambiguityordoubt; completelyunderstood.Reread through the manual until the instructions arecrystal clearin your head.1943November –1944February (date written; published1945August 17),George Orwell[pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair],Animal Farm[…], London:Secker & Warburg, publishedMay 1962,→OCLC:Is it notcrystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings?1997October 29, Michael Ashcraft, “High tech: Devil made us do it!”, inThe Rock Island Argus, 148th year, number12, Rock Island, Ill.,page B1, column 1:At a very basic level, technology almost always supplants some level of humanity. Not only does machine power replace manpower, but it distances, if not isolates, us from each other and from reality in the process. / See for yourself. Pick a technology. Any technology. / Thecrystal clearestexample is probably the advance from cannon balls to atom bombs.2019September 23,Greta Thunberg, speech at the United Nations:For more than 30 years, the science has beencrystal clear. How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you're doing enough, when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight.Visuallyclear, asharpimage, of highacuity.The picture on this TV iscrystal clear– you can see every grain of sand!2007, David Rudd Cycleback,Judging the Authenticity of Photographs: The Basics for Collectors, Cycleback.com,→ISBN,page111:The key is that only the original negative can produce thecrystal clearestphotographic image.Verytranslucentortransparent.1893, Charles F[orbes]Warner, editor,Picturesque Berkshire, part I (North), Northampton, Mass.: Picturesque Publishing Company; Springfield, Mass.: The W. F. Adams Company,page84:On the lowest level are broad meadow lands, through which wanders a stream of the mostcrystal clearwater imaginable.1980,AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page100:Near by, where thecrystal clearRiver Llugwy is crossed by a bridge, stands a small and ancient church built of massive, irregular boulders.2017October 4, “Guy Crabb Plumbing & Heating”, inView from Weymouth, Weymouth,page25:It is these beliefs that set Clearview Stoves apart and set their company on a quest to design and build a stove that would set new standards and quite simply be the best. Their quest led to a stove with traditional styling, that is simple to use and highly efficient with a wonderful view of the flames behindcrystal clearglass.2017, Steven Baker, chapter 16, inColour Sergeant Chesney V.C., Kibworth, Leics.: The Book Guild Ltd,→ISBN,page132:Jimmy and Ravi put together fine silver cutlery,crystal clearglasses and oriental decorated crockery.Having noclouds.1882May 1,C[harles] Piazzi Smyth,Madeira Meteorologic: Being a Paper on the Above Subject Read Before the Royal Society, Edinburgh, on 1st of May 1882, Edinburgh:David Douglas,pages31–32:Whence it comes that even in thecrystal clearestweather Madeira’s sunshine spectrum is inordinately full of water-vapour stopped lines, the sun’s direct rays, though to general observation luminous enough, are signally deprived of their proper scorching heat, and the temperature range of the climate is immensely reduced for both the day and the year;[…]1948, Roger Coty Peterson,Birds Over America, New York, N.Y.:Dodd, Mead & Company,page309:Jones Beach Pond on Long Island, so close to New York that the tops of the Empire State and the Chrysler Building can be seen on the horizon oncrystal cleardays, is one of the best shore-bird resorts I know.1965, Russ Leadabrand,A Guidebook to the Sunset Ranges of Southern California:[…], Los Angeles, Calif.:The Ward Ritchie Press,→LCCN,page127:Oncrystal cleardays, such as those during or just following a Santa Ana windstorm, the Salton Sea can be spotted from this area.Aurallyclear.1999July 30, “D’Imperio’s”, inWeekend Mag(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Pittsburgh, Pa.,page33:There is still space available for the STARFIRE BAND performance featuring thecrystal clearest, cleanest Pittsburgh Born and Bred Alto Vocals of the sensational Miss Judi Figel in our Summer Street Dance and Al Fresco Dining (inside if rain) series Music & Dancing 7-11 P.M2004March 8, Cameron J. Woods, “‘Bloody lovely’ music: New band worth a little money”, inThe Daily Collegian, volume CXIV, number 1, Amherst, Mass.:University of Massachusetts Amherst,page 4, column 2:With the slightly nasal, melodic whine of Wooten’scrystal clearvocals this song has a catchy sound to it that guarantees that it has potential to be an ear-bug.2012,2012 Engineering & Scientific Catalogue,Jaycar,page218:A truly powerful and versatile unit,crystal clearmusic is played through a pair of stereo speakers and has RCA line outputs for amplifier or Hi-Fi system integration.

Examples:

EN: I carry them hidden, to your pretty, colorful house, my whim for your lips, crystal clear for your eyes.
ES: Para tu pelo una cinta que llevo escondida de lindo color, para sus labios mi antojo y para sus ojos su claro cristal.
EN: No, sir. Everything's crystal clear.
ES: Soy el dueño de la casa ¿Y le preguntado.
EN: And I want to be crystal clear.
ES: Yo quiero ser clarísimo.
EN: It's all crystal clear.
ES: Eso lo sé.
EN: Yes, the case is crystal clear.
ES: Sí, el caso está clarísimo.
EN: It will be crystal clear, it will be calm...
ES: se hará la luz, todo se calmará...
EN: The memory of that night is crystal clear in my mind.
ES: Para mí que fue una noche clara como la luz del sol.
EN: Two aggies I won as a boy, crystal clear and cold as ice.
ES: A dos canicas que gané cuando era un muchacho, claras como el cristal y frías como el hielo.
EN: Things are crystal clear.
ES: Las cosas están claras como el agua.
EN: ─ And crystal clear.
ES: - Y claro como el cristal.
EN: Your mind must be crystal clear.
ES: Tu mente debe estar muy clara.
EN: It's all shining crystal clear.
ES: Ahora lo veo todo claro.
EN: The fountains crystal clear and the air is filled with the scent of jasmine.
ES: Las fuentes son cristalinas y el aire huele a jazmín.
EN: It is crystal clear.
ES: Está clarísimo.
EN: It's suddenly crystal clear.
ES: De repente está claro como el agua.

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