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like the back end of a bus en · ADP

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  1. (UK, colloquial, derogatory, qualifier:simile) Very unattractive.
    • 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'. 2001, "Richard", "A sign of our times...", demon.local http://groups.google.com/group/demon.local/browse_thread/thread/3e3e39af204c46cb/06729fc6d595ef98?lnk=st&q=%22the+back+end+of+a+bus%22&rnum=21#06729fc6d595ef98
    • 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. 2004, David Platt, “DUCHESS OF YORK NUDE”, in uk.politics.misc (Usenet):
    • ‘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 [...] 2005, Will Hadcroft, Anne Droyd And Century Lodge:
    • As I once told him, being British, looking like the back end of a bus or weighing 30 stone, was utterly irrelevant to the posting i made 2006, "sheelagh", "Bookie: Did you adopt the blind cat?", rec.pats.cats.health+behav http://groups.google.com/group/rec.pets.cats.health+behav/browse_thread/thread/d6ce604519cdefbb/a5f305d13e68a960?lnk=st&q=%22the+back+end+of+a+bus%22&rnum=10#a5f305d13e68a960
    • 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]. 2002, Tanuki the Raccoon-dog, “I drove a...”, in uk.rec.cars.modifications (Usenet):

Relateds

face only a mother could love · face for radio

Translations (5)

sv (se ut) som sju svåra år (very unattractive) · es como una nevera por detrás (very unattractive) · sv (se ut) som hej kom och hjälp mig (very unattractive) · fr moche comme un pou (very unattractive) · fr laid comme un pou (very unattractive)