mutton dressed as lamb
UK informal disapprovingDefinition
› a way of describing an older woman who is dressed in a style that is more suitable for a younger woman: Do you think this dress is too young-looking for me? - I don't want to look like mutton dressed as lamb.Not attractive to look atSerious and unpleasantWearing clothes
(Definition of mutton dressed as lamb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- be dripping with sth idiom
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