ugly duckling 
noun
A person who turns out to be beautiful or talented against all expectations.Cosmetic surgery can easily transform an ugly duckling into a beautiful swan, so it is being put to a new use - that is, to create ‘man-made beauty’....
- I was the ugly duckling who emerged a beautiful swan.
- The ugly duckling turned into a beautiful swan, but I'm sadly neither a duck nor a swan.
Origin
From the title of one of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, in which the ‘ugly duckling’ becomes a swan.
- driller
- drilling rig
- drillmaster
- drill press
- drill sergeant
- drill stem
- drillstock
- drill string
- drily
- Drina River
- drink
- drinkable
- drink and drive
- drink (a toast) to
- drink deep
- drink-driver
- drink-driving
- drinker
- drinker moth
- drinking age
- drinking chocolate
- drinking fountain
- drinking game
- drinking horn
- drinking song