| 单词 | a face like a |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa face like a —— b. a face like a ——: a face having an appearance reminiscent of the thing specified. Usually depreciative. ΚΠ a1626 W. Rowley Birth of Merlin (1662) sig. E2 You now bring me to a Ragamuffin with a face like a Frying-pan. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 52. ⁋3 She has not a Face like a John-Apple. 1824 S. E. Ferrier Inheritance III. iii. 16 Pretty!—what makes her pretty?—wi' a face like a sooket carvy! 1895 ‘I. Maclaren’ Beside Bonnie Brier Bush vii. i. 233 Confoond ye, Hillocks, what are ye ploiterin' aboot here for in the weet wi' a face like a boiled beet? 1916 N. Munro in B. D. Osborne & R. Armstrong Erchie & Jimmy Swan (1993) i. lii. 221 Duffy the coalman came up to Erchie on Saturday with a face like a fiddle. 1988 L. Erdrich Tracks (1989) iii. 47 She was thin on the top and plump as a turnip below, with a face like a round molasses cake. 1998 H. Strachan Way Up Way Out iii. 41 Yer got a face like a pig's arse, he said. < as lemmas |
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