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face like a bag of spanners en · NOUN
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(UK, humorous, informal) A very ugly face.
Everyone is used to it now, David and Victoria Beckham are the King and Queen of the tabloids and every half-decent footballer is a star and a pin-up, even if he's got a face like a bag of spanners.
2006, Robbie Fowler, David Maddock, Fowler: My Autobiography, page 105:More wrinkles than a tortoise, face like a bag of spanners.
2009, Ron Clooney, A Measure of Wheat for a Penny, page 275:
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