to be as ugly as a scarecrow
- Fuente de la expresión
- Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
- Variantes
- to be ugly as a scarecrow
- Contexto
- When Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst arrived at the Russian court in 1744, one of the many daughters of minor German royal houses who came to St Petersburg in the hope of an advantageous marriage, she was just 15 and ‘as ugly as a scarecrow’ after a severe illness. Her future husband, the heir to the throne, Grand Duke Peter, was a bizarre character whose main interests were his toy soldiers and ‘romping’ with his valets.
- Tipo de fuente
- magazine
- Título de la fuente
- The Spectator Magazine [online]
- Año
- 2006
- Web
- http://www.spectator.co.uk/archive/books/21889/the-heart-and-stomach-of-a-king.thtml
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Sin definir
- Marca dialectal
- Sin definir
- Frecuencia
- Raro