to be hit with an ugly stick
- Fuente de la expresión
- The Urban Dictionary
- Estructura completa
- to be hit (somebody) with an ugly stick
- Variantes
- To be [beaten, hit] [with, by] [the, an] ugly stick
- Contexto
- Some of them could flat out play. Luther Innis, five feet tall on his tiptoes, they called Circles. Dribble circles around anybody. Ramsey Wall had a face only his mama could love-if his mama was blind. Boy got hit with an ugly stick. Someone asked why people called him Pretty, you knew they'd never seen his sweet-ass J. That was a long time ago. Twenty, twenty-five years? Pavement's still here, but the basketball hoops are long gone. Ten years back, white people started buying the shot-to-hell houses his friends grew up in and spending all kinds of coin to pretty them up. Turned Cleave Springs into a priority area. Today, while Darnell mows, a crowd of little kids crisscrosses the old basketball court.
- Tipo de fuente
- magazine
- Autor
- Andrew Wingfield
- Título de la fuente
- Goodbye
- Año
- 2009
- Web
- Corpus of Contemporary American English
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Vulgar
- Marca dialectal
- General
- Frecuencia
- Frecuente