The point is plain as a pike-staff.
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Epistle to a Friend as quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).John Byrom
Plain as a pike-staff.
Alain-Rene Lesage
Pike, three inches long, perfect
Pike in all parts, green tigering the gold.
Killers from the egg: the malevolent aged grin.Ted Hughes
A flat case as plain as a pack-staff.
Thomas Middleton
It is only a plain tale of plain people told in the plain dialect of a plain old woman.
Eliza Calvert Hall
A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.
Lloyd Alexander
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