English
Adjective
en-adj|pos=like the back end of a bus
#UK|idiom|derogatory|slang Very unattractive.
#*2001, "Richard", "A sign of our times...", demon.local 1
#*:Not really fighting over her (puns aside). When you get a current beau and an ex, full of booze and testosterone, meeting up, their common interest isn't much of an issue in the subsequent display of machismo. I think she looks like the back end of a bus but, to them, she was a 'possession'.
#*2002, "Tanuki the Raccoon-dog", I drove a..., uk.rec.cars.modifications 2
#*:Must admit, I like the *original* 911s - the original, late-1960s ones back before they fitted bulgey wheelarches and silly tea-tray rear spoilers. They look much more like delicate, precision instruments compared with the later 'sledgehammer" versions [which IMHO are about as attractive as the back end of a bus].
#*2004, David Platt, "DUCHESS OF YORK NUDE", uk.politics.misc 3
#*:You surely can't be comparing Alicia Witt with Sarah Fergusson? Alicia Witt looks stunning, while the duchess of Pork looks like the back end of a bus.
#*2005: Will Hadcroft, Anne Droyd And Century Lodge
#*:�You�ve got a face like the back end of a bus,� he spat, his eyes raw and burning. Then he grinned, his yellow-stained teeth spreading across his mush [...]
#*2006, "sheelagh", "Bookie: Did you adopt the blind cat?", rec.pats.cats.health+behav 4
#*:As I once told him,being british, looking like the back end of a bus or weighing 30stone, was utterly irrevlevant to the posting i made
Synonyms
italbrac|very unattractive: butt-ugly italbrac|slang, fugly italbrac|slang, grotesque, hideous, plug-ugly italbrac|slang, ugly
Translations
trans-top|very unattractive
Dutch: een gezicht om leer op te kloppen
trans-mid
trans-bottom
References
The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms, by Catherine M. Schwarz and Elizabeth McLaren? Kirkpatrick, 1993.
See also
a face for radio
a face that only a mother could love
Category:English similes
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