No Lipstick On A Pig

Is there an expression that means the opposite.

No lipstick on a pig. Winning in the no spin era by someone who knows the game. Background lipstick on a pig though the expression lipstick on a pig may be relatively new porcine i e. Winning in the no spin era by someone who knows the game kindle edition by clarke torie. The incongruity of pigs and cosmetics was expressed as early as 1926 by the.

The lipstick variation is relatively novel not surprising since the word lipstick itself dates only to 1880. Download it once and read it on your kindle device pc phones or tablets. There is an expression like putting lipstick on a pig which means in context that if you take something obviously bad no matter how many cosmetic changes you make to it it will remain obviously bad. Winning in the no spin era by someone who knows the game victoria clarke free press 2006 isbn 0743271165 putting lipstick on a pig rep and melissa pennyworth mysteries michael bowen poisoned pen press 2008 isbn 1590585313.

In a society where women are literally dying in the pursuit of outward beauty god s message of inner beauty seems out of touch. Usually used on ugly broads when they put on a skirt and some lipstick and well they still look like the same digusting pig. But you know when you put lipstick on a pig at the end of the day it s still a pig at a november 2004 bush re election campaign rally in honolulu vice president dick cheney peppered his stump speech with the down home expression claiming john kerry s tough talk about national security was nonsense. Barack obama introduces the dan forshaw quartet s piece lipstick on a pig taken from the band s album no jazz please we re british.

Lipstick on a pig. For as the expression goes you can put lipstick on a pig but it s still a pig or as charles spurgeon said a hog in a silk waistcoat is still a hog. Slang for when someone tries to dress something up but is still that something. Lipstick on a pig.

Pig related idioms and phrases have permeated the english language for a very long time with the poor old pig always carrying negative connotations compare sweat like a pig make a pig s ear of something a pig in a poke etc in fact the idea of vain attempts at converting. But no matter how you patch it paint it or plump it a pretty face can never hide an ugly soul. No lipstick on this pig.