close as two coats of paint

close as two coats of paint
*close as two coats of paint
Cliché close and intimate. (*Also: as \close as two coats of paint.) •

When Tom and Mary were in high school, they were as close as two coats of paint.

All their lives, the cousins were close as two coats of paint.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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