mutton dressed as lamb
UK informal disapprovinga way of describing an older woman who is dressed in a style that is more suitable for a younger woman:
Do you think this dress is too young-looking for me? - I don't want to look like mutton dressed as lamb.
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Not attractive to look at
- a blot on the landscape idiom
- back end
- be no oil painting idiom
- be not much to look at idiom
- blowsy
- florid
- ghoulish
- hideously
- horsey
- icky
- inelegant
- look a fright idiom
- look like the back end of a bus idiom
- minger
- putrid
- twee
- ugly
- ugly duckling
- unappealing
- unappetizing
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