A flat case as plain as a pack-staff.
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Act v. Sc. 3. Compare: "Plain as a pike-staff", Terence in English (1641); Buckingham, Speech in the House of Lords, 1675; Gil Blas (Smollett’s translation), book xii. chap. viii. John Byrom, Epistle to a Friend.Thomas Middleton
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Plain as a pike-staff.
Alain-Rene Lesage
The point is plain as a pike-staff.
John Byrom
Ez fer war, I call it murder—
There you hev it plain an' flat;
I don't want to go no furder
Than my Testyment fer that.James Russell Lowell
[to audience member] How much do you smoke a day sir? [the man says a pack] Pack! What a little puss. Gosh, why don't you just put a dress on and show it all to us while you smoke your little faggoty pack. C'mon, swish around for us. Damnit that pisses me off. I go through two lighters a day, dude. I'm starting to feel it.
Bill Hicks
It is only a plain tale of plain people told in the plain dialect of a plain old woman.
Eliza Calvert Hall
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