be the armpit of sth
humorousto be an extremely unpleasant, often dirty, place:
the armpit of the North
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Unpleasant places
- armpit
- den
- desert
- dive
- eyesore
- fleabag
- fleapit
- hellhole
- hole
- hotbed
- hovel
- nest
- pigsty
- pit
- sausage machine
- slum
- the Black Hole of Calcutta
- wasteland
- what's the world coming to? idiom
- world
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