pure as the driven snow

Idioms  

1. Morally unsullied, chaste, as in She's just sixteen and pure as the driven snow. This simile dates from the late 1500s, although driven, which means “carried by the wind into drifts,” was occasionally omitted. It is heard less often today.

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Example Sentences

And the young man may have been as pure as the driven snow before he became a Washington Redskin.

From Washington Times • Oct. 1, 2019

Maybe golf is as pure as the driven snow.

From The Guardian • Mar. 25, 2019

They are all dedicated, pure as the driven snow.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2018

Make no mistake, Spencer is not as pure as the driven snow.

From Golf Digest • May 3, 2016

Told me, when I ran up against him on the street, that he'd got the name from a song which began, "Once I was pure as the driven snow."

From Old Gorgon Graham More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son by Lorimer, George Horace

Related Words

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• chaste
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