Like a bulldog chewing a wasp

[CuteToni]

My b/friend just described someone as"she's got a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp", while never having heard this expression I wondered its' origin?

[MarkRae]

Almost certainly.

Cf "a face like a cow licking p!ss off a thistle"...

[mike11111]

It's been around for quite a while. Basically bulldogs are not blessed with the most aesthetic of facial features, and a face contorted by chewing a wasp would make it look even more unattractive.

[CuteToni]

Anyone in particular Butch? My dad used to rave about Jim Davidson, he was 70s wasn't he?

[Buenchico]

The phrase definitely seems to have its origins in the UK (which, given that the Bulldog is regarded as a British breed, is unsurprising) but its exact origins seem to be unknown. One website says that it's Scottish but I favour the one which claims the phrase for Lancashire.

It's probably just something which one (unrecorded) person thought of and then his mates, liking the phrase, copied - so that it eventually spread throughout the UK.

Chris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rPH6C8ZMFU

[CuteToni]

So it's a well known saying? LMAO! He just showed me the woman in question and he's got it dead right! Thanks guys xoxo

[Buenchico]

Eddie might well be correct. (Perhaps that's why I thought the phrase might belong to Lancashire?).

The Daily Mail credits Les Dawson with using the phrase:
http://www.dailymail....ease-life-online.html

Chris

[CuteToni]

Well he's a Lancastrian(is that right?) so that makes sense Buenchico

[CuteToni]

He as in my b/friend :n)

[CuteToni]

Thanks Butch hunni and everyone else, he's had me in fits as I mentioned Les Dawson and he's doing some kind of impression. G'nite xoxo

[MarkRae]

"I knew the mother-in-law was coming to stay - the mice were throwing themselves onto the traps..."

Total class!

[Buenchico]

Your response to Les Dawson impressions is better than Les Dawson's then, Toni ;-)

I once met a guy who taught LD's kids. When Les walked through the door at a parents' evening, the teacher couldn't resist greeting him with an impression of himself (as in the Cissy & Ada sketches with Roy Barraclough). Mr Dawson didn't say a word. He simply turned round, walked out of the door and was never seen on the school premises again.

[MarkRae]

That doesn't surprise me at all...

Although I find Les Dawson hilarious he was, by all accounts, a total pudding...

[CuteToni]

He, as in Les Dawson looks like a gurner LMAO!

[roger]

"Face like a bag of spanners" was my favourite

[tamborine]

lemon lips :)

[katmakenian]

Another alternative was to describe someone as "having a face like slapped elbow", which is brilliant!