| 单词 | to be no oil painting |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be no oil painting b. colloquial (originally U.S.). to be no oil painting and variants: (of a person) to be physically unattractive. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [noun] > ugly thing eyesore1530 blind side1606 dissightc1710 ugly1755 desight1828 eye-sorrow1828 sight1862 a blot (up)on the landscape1912 to be no oil painting1919 1919 Rock Valley (Iowa) Bee 19 Sept. 8/4 ‘You should shave yourself and you would never have a face like that.’ I should like to have told him that his was no oil painting. 1927 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 10 Dec. 5/7 Women always run after me... I am no oil painting but I have a clear conscience as good as has never been used. 1930 J. B. Priestley Angel Pavement ii. 64 ‘'Member him, Edna?—teeth sticking out a yard, and all cross-eyed.’.. ‘Still, we can't all be oil paintings.’ 1932 N. Mitford Christmas Pudding iii. 39 The poor girl's certainly no oil painting. 1955 L. P. Hartley Perfect Woman viii. 76 I may not be an oil-painting, but I'm all right in my way. 1998 P. Jooste Dance with Poor Man's Daughter (1999) i. 44 The truth is that he's no oil painting but I won't say so and hurt her feelings. 2001 4 × 4 Dec. 127/2 Hopeless off-road, mediocre on tarmac, and certainly no oil painting. But at least it's very cheap to buy. < as lemmas |
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