pure as the driven snow

pure as the driven snow

Absolutely virtuous or chaste; unsullied by sin or immoral behavior. If you expect teenagers to remain pure as the driven snow, you've got another think coming. Kate would never cheat on an exam—she's pure as the driven snow.
See also: driven, pure, snow
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

*pure as the driven snow

pure and chaste. (Often used ironically. *Also: as ~.) Jill: Sue must have gone to bed with every man in town. Jane: And I always thought she was as pure as the driven snow. Robert was notoriously promiscuous, but tried to convince all his girlfriends that he was pure as the driven snow.
See also: driven, pure, snow
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

pure as the driven snow

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.
See also: driven, pure, snow
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

pure as the driven snow

completely pure.
When used of snow, driven means that it has been piled into drifts or made smooth by the wind. The phrase was famously parodied by the actress Tallulah Bankhead in 1947 : ‘I'm as pure as the driven slush’.
See also: driven, pure, snow
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

(as) pure as the driven ˈsnow

(often humorous) innocent or morally good: I don’t think you’re really in a position to criticize her. You’re hardly as pure as the driven snow yourself!
See also: driven, pure, snow
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

pure as the driven snow

Morally pure, physically chaste. The simile dates from Shakespeare’s time, although driven, meaning carried along by the wind into drifts, was sometimes omitted. In Hamlet (3.1) he had it, “Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow.” It was a cliché by the time H.W. Thompson wrote (Body, Boots and Britches, 1940), “She was pure as the snow, but she drifted.”
See also: driven, pure, snow
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
  • be (as) pure as the driven snow
  • pure
  • sepulchre
  • a whited sepulcher
  • a whited sepulchre
  • a bad lot
  • bad lot
  • bad bunch
  • dine with the devil
References in periodicals archive
I like my digestive tract to be pure as the driven snow.
DEFENCE Minister Costas Papacostas yesterday slammed politicians for acting as if they were "pure as the driven snow" when it came to nepotism, while asking his Ministry for favourable transfers for their own sons serving in the National Guard.
Shame on anyone who suspects his motives for marrying Jade weren't as pure as the driven snow..
And another thought of his, "white as the driven snow", has been transformed by time into pure as the driven snow.
It is the latest incarnation of the Alfa 147 Collezione, and comes for the first time with the option of a striking white paint colour that is as pure as the driven snow.
It is the latest incarnation of the Alfa 147 Collezione and comes for the first time with the option of a striking white paint colour that is as pure as the driven snow.
It's OK for them to roam but woe betide their partners if they're not as pure as the driven snow.
The Hutton Whitewash is where everything the Government did was as pure as the driven snow, while everything the BBC did was as pure as the driven slush.
KELLY CLARKSON - the recent winner of the American version of Pop Idol is apparently trying to tread in Britney's formerly chaste footsteps, with friends claiming she is as pure as the driven snow.
Greene, I'm sure, is as pure as the driven snow. But after Johnson, the recent shamings of Irish swimmer Michelle De Bruin and British sprinter Doug Walker, cynicism can never again be removed from any athletic achievement.
Astonishingly, I really do believe that she is utterly convinced that her husband is as pure as the driven snow and has not played around as so many are suggesting.
Because even if he's as pure as the driven snow, there is no way on this earth the SFA are going to overturn a two-game ban for the Rangers assistant manager while Celtic boss Neil Lennon is staring at an eight-game stretch.
Paris isnOt as pure as the driven snow, but her dress sense is spotless.
Goodwin added: "I'm not sure how much all there is to tell - for all I know her past is as pure as the driven snow. But she's taking no chances."
Doesn't Tara look as pure as the driven snow in her furry coat, bobble hat and demure smile?