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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.