Citations:clashy-clashy

English citations of clashy-clashy

Adjective: "(informal, of clothes, upholstery, etc.) featuring discordant colours or patterns"

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• 2008, Lisa Papademetriou, Accidentally Fabulous, Scholastic (2008), →ISBN, page 2:

  "You could have borrowed one of Dad's ties," I pointed out.

  "Dad only has striped ties," Kirk said. "I've only got striped shirts. I'm not about to get all clashy-clashy at some fancy party."

• 2009, Caitlin Moran, "Forget pushy parents, the less you encourage your children the better", The Times (UK), 3 August 2009:

  Nor getting everyone’s “colours” done, so that the high streets won’t be so “clashy-clashy,” and constantly distressing to the more aesthetically sensitive.

• 2010, Lisi Harrison, My Little Phony, Poppy (2010), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  She told me that just because matchy-matchy wasn't in, it did nawt^[sic] mean clashy-clashy was.

• 2011, Hannah Betts, "How to be this year’s clash hit", The Telegraph, 18 June 2011:

  Avoid the fustily matchy-matchy in favour of the artfully clashy-clashy (colour) or aforementioned soft/hard contrast.