to look like something the cat brought in
- Fuente de la expresión
- Cambridge Dictionaries Online
- Estructura completa
- to look like something the cat brought in/dragged in
- Variantes
- to be a mess, to look a sight, to be down at heel, to look like the wreck of the Hesperus
- Contexto
- Fay saw the police go up, Heard the shouts, and watched them all come down, three cops, she said, first, in uniform, called off the beat probably and then a plainclothesman holding on to Jody’s arm and talking into her hair, and then Tom with another plainclothesman, and wearing his cap…no doubt he has made them wait while he put it on…and then the rest, Og, who looked like something the cat brought in, and Beryl […]
- Tipo de fuente
- book
- Autor
- Alexander Trocchi
- Título de la fuente
- Cain's book
- Año
- 1992
- Web
- Google Books
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
- Marca dialectal
- General
- Frecuencia
- Frecuente