English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions
Idioms: Beauty - Appearance
from: 'not a hair out of place'
to: 'vertically challenged'
- not a hair out of place
- To say that someone does not have a hair out of place means that their appearance is perfect.
"Angela is always impeccably dressed - never a hair out of place!"
- To say that someone does not have a hair out of place means that their appearance is perfect.
- like something the cat dragged in
- If you compare a person or thing to something the cat dragged in, you think that they look dirty, untidy or generally unappealing.
"My teenage son often looks like something the cat dragged in."
- If you compare a person or thing to something the cat dragged in, you think that they look dirty, untidy or generally unappealing.
- look a sight
- If a person looks a sight, their appearance is awful, unsuitable or very untidy.
"She looks a sight in that dress!"
- If a person looks a sight, their appearance is awful, unsuitable or very untidy.
- look like a million dollars
- If you look like a million dollars, you look extremely good.
"With a tan and a new hairstyle she looked like a million dollars!"
- If you look like a million dollars, you look extremely good.
- mutton dressed as lamb
- This expression refers to a middle-aged woman who tries to look younger by dressing in clothes designed for younger people.
"The style doesn't suit her - it has a mutton-dressed-as-lamb effect on her!"
- This expression refers to a middle-aged woman who tries to look younger by dressing in clothes designed for younger people.
- pretty as a picture
- Someone who is (as) pretty as a picture is very attractive or appealing in appearance.
"The young bride looked (as) pretty as a picture in her beautiful dress."
- Someone who is (as) pretty as a picture is very attractive or appealing in appearance.
- (all) skin and bone
- If someone is all skin and bone, they are very thin or too thin.
"After trekking in the Himalayas, he was all skin and bone."
- If someone is all skin and bone, they are very thin or too thin.
- thin on the top
- If someone, usually a man, is thin on the top, they are losing their hair or going bald.
"Dad's gone a bit thin on the top in the last few years."
- If someone, usually a man, is thin on the top, they are losing their hair or going bald.
- (as) ugly as sin
- The expression as ugly as sin is used to refer to people or things that are considered to be very unattractive.
"Have you seen the new neighbour's dog? It's as ugly as sin!"
- The expression as ugly as sin is used to refer to people or things that are considered to be very unattractive.
- vertically challenged
- This term is a humoristic way of referring to someone who is not very tall.
"High shelves are difficult for vertically challenged shoppers."
- This term is a humoristic way of referring to someone who is not very tall.
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