face like a bag of spanners

English

Noun

face like a bag of spanners (plural faces like bags of spanners)

  1. (Britain, informal, humorous) A very ugly face.
    • 2006, Robbie Fowler, David Maddock, Fowler: My Autobiography (page 105)
      Everyone is used to it now, David and Victoria Beckham are the King and Queen of the tabloids and every half-decent footballer is a star and a pin-up, even if he's got a face like a bag of spanners.
    • 2009, Ron Clooney, A Measure of Wheat for a Penny, page 275:
      More wrinkles than a tortoise, face like a bag of spanners.
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