white as milk

((as) white as milk (as (the driven) snow или as wool))

≈ белый как снег, белоснежный [white as snow и white as wool этим. библ. Revelation I, 14]; см. тж. white as chalk и white as a ghost

The walls were whitewashed as white as milk. (Ch. Dickens, ‘David Copperfield’, ch. III) — Стены были выбелены чисто-начисто.

This man's hair was as white as snow, much too white for his age. (Fr. Marryat, ‘Poor Jack’, ch. X) — Он был белый как лунь - не по летам.

They peddle out such a fish as that by the pound in the market-house there; everybody buys some of him; his meat's as white as snow and makes a good fry. (M. Twain, ‘Huckleberry Finn’, ch. X) — Такую рыбу продают на рынке на фунты, каждый покупает понемногу; мясо у нее белое, нежное, и она очень хороша жареная.

...he walked... along a great white road - a road white as the driven snow - that was banked on each side of him with daffodils as big as breakfast-cups nodding and nodding at him as he went along the snow-white road... (S. O'Casey, ‘I Knock at the Door’, ‘The Dream School’) — ...он шел... по широкой белой дороге, по дороге, белой, как свежевыпавший снег, вдоль которой и справа и слева росли нарциссы величиной с чайную чашку; и нарциссы все кивали и кивали ему головками, когда он шел по белоснежной дороге...

In contrast to Hal's deep tan Tommy was as white as milk... (J. Jones, ‘From Here to Eternity’, ch. XXVI) — По сравнению с сильно загоревшим Хэлом Томми казался белым-пребелым...