lit up like a Christmas tree
Glaringly bright display
Lit up like a Christmas tree describes someone or something brightly illuminated or highly visible.
The phrase often applies to a person showing obvious intoxication—flushed, glassy-eyed, unmistakably drunk or high: He came home lit up like a Christmas tree.
It can also describe anything conspicuously aglow: The dashboard lit up like a Christmas tree with warning lights.
- bright lightsIntense urban illumination
- ornamentedMade visually elaborate
- garlandedCrowned with blooms
- blinkingEyelid opening and closing
- glowingGiving off steady light
overloaded · festooned · gaudy · flashing · neon sign · radiant · celebratory · alerting · notifying · luminous · incandescent · twinkling · colorful · Vegas strip · bedecked · signaling · alarm bells · red flags
lit up like a Christmas treedark
Absence of light
unlit · blacked out · dim · barely visible · shadowy
lit up like a Christmas treestone-faced
Revealing no expression
poker-faced · expressionless · deadpan · blank · crestfallen
lit up like a Christmas treeunderstated
Deliberately minimized in expression
subtle · inconspicuous · muted · subdued · plain