back end of a bus

== English == === Pronunciation === === Prepositional phrase === like the back end of a bus (simile, colloquial, British, derogatory) Very unattractive. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ugly 2001, "Richard", "A sign of our times...", demon.local [1] 2006, "sheelagh", "Bookie: Did you adopt the blind cat?", rec.pats.cats.health+behav [4] As I once told him, being British, looking like the back end of a bus or weighing 30 stone, was utterly irrelevant to the posting i made ==== Translations ==== === See also === face for radio face only a mother could love === Further reading === Catherine M. Schwarz; Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick (1993), The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms