| 单词 | a bag of spanners |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa bag (also box) of spanners colloquial (chiefly British). a bag (also box) of spanners and variants: used as the type of a thing which or person who is extremely unattractive, useless, stupid, etc. Frequently in similative use, esp. in to have a face like a bag of spanners: to be extremely unattractive.The phrase was popularized by the British comedian Les Dawson (1931–93): see quots. 1976, 1981. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > unattractive [phrase] not to be much to look at1861 to have a face like a bag of spanners1976 1976 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) 25 Nov. 14/5 That love of words was born in his [sc. Les Dawson's] childhood in the North of England... I asked him for an example. ‘How about this for a description of someone? He had a face like a bagful of spanners’. 1981 L. Dawson in Listener 27 Aug. 206/1 What a woman; she's got a face like a bag of spanners... It's no secret in the family that she was drummed out of the Gestapo for cruelty. 1998 Evening Standard (Nexis) 12 Oct. 31 ‘He hasn't really done anything of cultural importance,’ said one, and, oddly enough, those were exactly the same words that passed through my mind as I looked at the bag of spanners who was speaking. 1999 Bike Dec. 117/1 (table) Meant to be a sports tourer but is a rattley, lumpy bag of spanners. 2015 @JoshuaDH_ 4 May in twitter.com (accessed 16 Oct. 2019) He may have the body of an Adonis, but he still has a face like a box of spanners. < as lemmas |
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