odious as a toad
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- (archaic, simile) Very odious; hateful.
- 1680, The History of the Damnable Popish Plot, in Its Various Branches & Progress:
- And we have already rendred our irreconcileable Enemy the Duke of Buckingham as odious as a Toad.
- 1762, Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review - Volume 32, page 494:
- E'en to a Rat he favour show'd, To some as odious as a toad : To him for bread it often came, ( For kindness can all creatures tame)
- 2011, Alice Walker, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, →ISBN:
- How fear, self-condemnation, guilt and joy flushed through her as she hastily pushed Brownfield away; pushed him away as if he were as odious as a toad, as inconsequential as some kind of harmless lizard.