As white as a _ _ _ _ _ ?

[dave.burkin]

Please complete this saying :- As white as a _ _ _ _ _ ? Answer has to be 5 letters, thanks.

[apricot]

Sheet?

[j2buttonsw]

ghost

[rja211077]

another vote for sheet here

[PaulB]

I first thought Ghost but changed my mind to sheet :oP Sorry j2

[Buffy]

I vote for ghost, because I think that was even a line in The Wizard of Oz. Besides, sheets come in many different colours, whereas ghosts come in only one shade-- white!

[misk111]

I took this from a grammar website: so it must be right? Yes?

http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/grammar/archive/sim
iles_as.html

"In this case, you should feel free to invent your own similes, as long as the comparisons are valid ones. For example, English speakers say "as white as a sheet" because, traditionally anyway, sheets were usually white. A learner might prefer "as white as snow", or "as white as cotton wool", and these are good "invented similes" because the image in people's minds of snow and cotton wool is of whiteness. "

[DuzyEverwork]

Sorry, no help at all but my gran used to say 'as white as a chimney sweeps ars*!'

[shybearuk]

I'd go with sheet. It's the one I've heard more often

[gazzawazza]

It's got to be sheet Buffy, why? because you can make a ghost using a sheet, as long as it's white!

[solarbears]

Ghost............but sheet is possible .

[damien86]

i've always known it as Ghost but maybe over the water its different

[abfandango]

Are chimney sweeps *rses particularly white? Or was your grandmother merely deceived by their apparent whiteness against a background of sooty blackness? I hope you pointed out her error, it's a slippery slope.