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couldn't stop a pig in a passage en · VERB

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  1. (Yorkshire, idiomatic) To be bow-legged.
    • I remember seeing old ladies with incredible bowlegs caused by rickets. Unkind folks would remark ‘They couldn't stop a pig in a passage’. 2008, Wilf’ Lunn, My Best Cellar, page 112:
    • Joe laughed. ‘Aye, I know I'm a funny little feller. I couldn't stop a pig in a passage, could I lass? But I'm good at me job, else Eddie wouldn't have asked me to come and look at that there roof.’ 2004, Margaret Dickinson, chapter 15, in Red Sky in the Morning:
    • And he's got funny-looking legs from all the football he plays; talk about bowed legs! Couldn't stop a pig in a passage, that one. 2011 March 1, KE Payne, 365 Days: