| 词汇 | (as) ugly as sin |
| 释义 | (as) ugly as sinExtremely visually displeasing or unattractive. This old car is all beat up and ugly as sin, but it's still going strong after all these years. I'm sure I looked as ugly as sin by that point, with my makeup smeared all over the place and my hair a total mess. *ugly as sinCliché extremely ugly. (*Also: as ~.) Why would anyone want to buy that dress? It's as ugly as sin! Harold is ugly as sin, but his personality is very charming. ugly as sinPhysically or morally hideous, as in I can't think why she likes that dog; it's ugly as sin. This simile, first recorded in 1801, replaced the earlier ugly as the devil. ugly as sinIf someone or something is as ugly as sin, they are very ugly. Even his kids were ugly as sin. (as) miserable/ugly as ˈsin(spoken) used to emphasize that somebody is very unhappy or ugly: He arrived at the party looking as miserable as sin.Some babies are as ugly as sin at that age.(as) ugly as sin mod. very ugly. This car’s as ugly as sin, but it’s cheap and dependable. ugly as sinverbSee as ugly as sin ugly as sinHideous, either physically or spiritually. This simile appears to have replaced the earlier ugly as the devil, mentioned by Daniel Defoe in his History of the Devil (1726). The first appearance in print was in Maria Edgeworth’s Popular Tales of 1804: “Why, she is ugly as sin!” |
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