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If I was untidy when I was a child my Mum would say:

You look like you've been dragged through a hedge backwards..... or
You look like the wreck of the Hesperus.

If I or anyone looked miserable she'd say:
You've got a face like the back of a bus!.... or
Your face would turn the milk sour.

Add yours please.

I was known as "tatty head" as a child .... mmmm. Wonder why?

My hair still has a life of it's own and so has my poor daughter :-(.

Thank heavens for hair straightners :-D :-D

My gran used to tell my aunt she looked like a sack of potatoes tied up ugly.
Brummies were never known for their tact

my bedroom was a midden lol

I was skinny (very) until I got to my twenties. Was told I looked like "a long drink of water", whatever that means- a drip??

Scozz, sounds very unhealthy. :-D :-D :-S

yes, a drip in a midden doesn't sound good at all :-(

That skinny girl is inside me, screaming to get out. I feed her chocolate and she shuts up :-D

You seem to have shares in Cadburys.pmsl. :-D :-D and lived outside the Castle Gates. ;-)

What about this?

You look miserable :-( you get told to put a smile on your face and cheer up. But if you smile, you are asked what you've been up to :-D .

It's a no-win situation. :-P

Having to run about in a shower to get wet.
Seen more meat on a butchers pencil.

Not first in line when it came to handing out good looks.

Marion ;-)

Got told..

you look like a ragamuffin or looked in need.......of a good scrub down.

you look like someone smacked your face with a wet fish.... :-D :-D

My Granma used to say of my shoes (not huge but bigger than my elder sister's) that they were like shuggy boats....and my extremely thick hair was like "Haggie's rope".......local rope makers on the Tyne.....charming :-S ....and I used to be so embarrassed :-( :-D

Okay for those of a sensitive nature look away now.

Colleague who didn't like me.

"Jill you have a f***-off face. I see you and want you to f***-off".

At least I wasn't a right slapper who went after anything in a uniform in the hope of getting them out of it. :-D

LOL :-D :-D

Ah, the cost that was paid for those Nylons in WW2.

A face like a well skelped a*s*

This thread has really made me chuckle :-D Reminds me of a saying my dear old granny used to say.
If anyone looked scruffy,she used to say,
she looks like a 4penny ham bone.
I suppose she meant not very well dressed,or not colour matched.
My granny was a very smart lady.bless her. <3 <3

so ugly - fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down - one of my son's sayings

my Dad abuot me - she should be able to sing, she has legs like a lark

my Mum to me if I shouted - You sound as if you come from Mary Ann street - a notorious street in Cardiff at the time

Theres not a pound of you hanging the right way.

Certainly brought back my mums sayings I haven,t heard for donkeys years.

Ann for wreck of the Hesperus

Trish for being done up like a 4penny hambone.

Thats come out a bit wrong but you know what I mean.
Also being done up like a dogs dinner and if I was dithering about, she used to say I was like a fart in a collander.
:-S :-S

*giggles*.... :-D

Remembering Mam used to say "the sights you see when you haven't got a gun".....was never quite sure at the time what she meant lol :-S