I should have thought it as plain as a pikestaff.

And there's one thing about this case that's as plain as a pikestaff.

This speech showed me everything as plain as a pikestaff.

"But what he was thinking was as plain as a pikestaff.

It is absolutely as plain as a pikestaff.

The banker emphasized the word his', and the inference of that was as plain as a pikestaff.

Besides none of us ever knew the whole story, even though it was as plain as a pikestaff when you came to think about it.

The thing's as plain as a pikestaff.

It just isn't believable, and yet it's as plain as a pikestaff on the tube."

"The case is as plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer it becomes.

The whole problem is as plain as a pikestaff, and it only remains for us to obtain sufficient evidence to convince Sir Alexander.

--Sure I'm after seeing him not five minutes ago, says Alf, as plain as a pikestaff.

This very fact which was to them (and is to me) as plain as a pikestaff, is the very fact that has been specially diluted or denied.

You didn't take anyone in, you know, It was as plain as a pikestaff you didn't want to sit out with Mavis Warrenby.

Speaking of spankers, what do you think a woman feels like who's been born stumpy and fat and who looks as plain as a pikestaff, like that little one we bumped into back there.

With Soviet moves becoming "as plain as a pikestaff," Churchill felt that the Western Allies' most potent bargaining force would be the presence of Anglo-American troops deep inside Germany, so they could meet with the Russians "as far to the east as possible."

It was plain as a pikestaff but the old man and Gray trusted him.

Plain as a pikestaff, but it never occurred to me till I had actually set out to come to you.

I should have thought it as plain as a pikestaff.

This speech showed me everything as plain as a pikestaff.

And there's one thing about this case that's as plain as a pikestaff.

'The case is going to be plain as a pikestaff,' said Raglan.

But, secondly, it seems to me plain as a pikestaff that the building society, in parting with its money, relied on the transfer.

"Plain as a pikestaff to me," said Miss Howard shortly.

"But what he was thinking was as plain as a pikestaff.

It is absolutely as plain as a pikestaff.

The banker emphasized the word his', and the inference of that was as plain as a pikestaff.

The thing was plain as a pikestaff; for omitting a limit of liability this chap had got his commission!

The thing's as plain as a pikestaff.

It just isn't believable, and yet it's as plain as a pikestaff on the tube."

Besides none of us ever knew the whole story, even though it was as plain as a pikestaff when you came to think about it.

Any road, here it is, plain as a pikestaff, Miss Ruth Appleby.

'Plain as a pikestaff,' said the inspector.

"The case is as plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer it becomes.

Mostly, Mr. Cowan's prose is plain as a pikestaff, earnestly fixed on the physical world.

The whole problem is as plain as a pikestaff, and it only remains for us to obtain sufficient evidence to convince Sir Alexander.

"Not, of course, that that'll prove any use--it's plain as a pikestaff you didn't organise to have her invited."

--Sure I'm after seeing him not five minutes ago, says Alf, as plain as a pikestaff.

This very fact which was to them (and is to me) as plain as a pikestaff, is the very fact that has been specially diluted or denied.

You didn't take anyone in, you know, It was as plain as a pikestaff you didn't want to sit out with Mavis Warrenby.

Thus they mean one thing to one person, another thing to another person; they are unintelligible to one generation, plain as a pikestaff to the next.