to be herring-gutted
- Fuente de la expresión
- Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
- Contexto
- All were flabby and discoloured, as all tramps are under their deceptive sunburn. Two or three figures wen there stay ineradicably in my mind. Old 'Daddy', aged seventy-four, with his truss, and his red, watering eyes, a herring-gutted starveling with sparse beard and sunken cheeks, looking like the corpse of Lazarus in some primitive picture: an imbecile, wandering hither and thither with vague giggles, coyly pleased because his trousers constantly slipped down and left him nude. But few of us were greatly better than these; there were not ten decently built men among us, and half, I believe, should have been in hospital.
- Tipo de fuente
- book
- Autor
- George Orwell
- Título de la fuente
- The Spike, in Fifty Orwell Essays [ebook]
- Año
- 1931
- Web
- http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300011.txt
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Sin definir
- Marca dialectal
- Sin definir
- Frecuencia
- Raro