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Idiom

mud fence

Meaning

Something proverbially unattractive or ugly.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“That old car is as ugly as a mud fence.”

“The new building design is as ugly as a mud fence, so the city council rejected it.”

“While the architect praised the avant-garde structure, the local residents insisted that the building was as ugly as a mud fence.”

Examples

simple

“That old car is as ugly as a mud fence.”

contextual

“The new building design is as ugly as a mud fence, so the city council rejected it.”

complex

“While the architect praised the avant-garde structure, the local residents insisted that the building was as ugly as a mud fence.”

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