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Easily audible and understandable. For example, They told us, loud and clear, what to do in an emergency , or You needn't repeat it—I hear you loud and clear . This expression gained currency in the military during World War II to acknowledge radio messages ( I read you loud and clear ) although it originated in the late 1800s.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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