oil painting

Noun

oil painting (countable and uncountable, plural oil paintings)

1. A painting done with oil paints.
2. (uncountable) The art of painting with oil paints.
3. (UK, humorous) A physically attractive person.
   • "Very lovely!" he said, staring her straight in the face.
     "You needn't try and be funny!" she said. "If you mean me, I'm no oil-painting, and I know it!"1920, Henry St. John Cooper, “Sunny Ducrow”, in Putnam's, page 117
   • Wayne Swan: All I can say is that she's a much more attractive person than the Prime Minister.
     George Brandis: You're not exactly an oil painting yourself, Wayne.2007 "Virginia Trioli talks to George Brandis and Wayne Swan" Lateline ABC (Australia) 14 September 2007