bag of weasels
bag of weasels noun: something that has pronounced weaselly characteristics, such as pettiness, bad temper, and deviousness.
Noun
bag of weasels (plural bags of weasels)
- Something that has pronounced weaselly characteristics, such as pettiness, bad temper, and deviousness.
- When she entered the kitchen matters were going on as usual — her mother bustling in glorious style, and as cross (her husband muttered) "as a bag of weasels."1831, Mrs. S. C. Hall, Sketches of Irish character, page 180
- Ciril Usage was jist about as crass a crayther as you could find in a bag of weasels; but Charley, to himself be tould it, was a funny rogue, an' could take his weight out of any body he met; an' may be he didn't keep “Civil Usage” an' the women in other's hair the whole road.1842, The Citizen: Or, Dublin Monthly Magazine - Volumes 3-4, page 257
Forms of bag of weasels
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Questions about bag of weasels
- What does bag of weasels mean?
- Bag of weasels means something that has pronounced weaselly characteristics, such as pettiness, bad temper, and deviousness.
- What part of speech is bag of weasels?
- Bag of weasels is a noun.
- What is the plural of bag of weasels?
- The plural of bag of weasels is bags of weasels.
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