like a plasterer's radio

adjective

Thickly covered with some substance.

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Meanings

adjectivelike a plasterer's radio (not comparable)
  1. UKnot comparableslangThickly covered with some substance.

    It was an epic run to Montalcino, with Cadel Evans leading home a field of dancing statues: the rain left the entire peloton looking like a plasterer's radio by the end.

    2023 May 25, Carlton Kirby, Sticky Bottle: The Cycling Year According to Carlton Kirby, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 33
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    A track mark ran down through his remaining chest hair like a napalm strike in a Vietnamese jungle, and the flaking skin of his Latin torso now looked like a plasterer's radio.

    2017 March 22, David Ross, The Man Who Loved Islands, Orenda Books, →ISBN

    There was one blagger, another fucking Londoner called Mad Mikey, who'd parked his motor down at Leith Docks and came back to see it covered in seagull shit, looked like a plasterer's radio, and that was it for him.

    2024 March 1, Tony Black, Last Orders: An anthology of short stories, McNidder & Grace, →ISBN
    1. UKespeciallynot comparableslangvulgarCovered with semen.

      The seemingly never-ending streams of ectoplasm emanating from his musket soon had me coated like a plasterer's radio.

      2018 April 8, Becky Clark, Fiction Can Be Murder, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN
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      But, if you have a daughter, does it torture you? The thought of her getting fucked? Some dude getting stuck in? Her face like a plasterer's radio?

      2017 March 22, Mark Catley, Scuffer, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN

      While I brush my teeth, he describes the explicit dream he's just had about his missus. 'She had a face like a plasterer's radio.'

      2020 February 6, Chris Atkins, A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner, Atlantic Books, →ISBN

      He was our brickie and started every sentence with: " If I was still a young man," followed by such gems of wisdom as: " I'd leave her looking like a plasterer's radio," […]

      2024 September 28, Laurence Seidler, Busy Being Born, Book Guild Publishing, →ISBN

Origin

The portable radios used by plasterers and other builders while working tend to end up thickly covered in plaster and paint.

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