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face that would stop a clock (plural faces that would stop a clock or faces that would stop clocks)
- (idiomatic) A shockingly unattractive face.
1891 March 20, “The Mystery Still Deep: Queer story told by a strange young Englishman”, in New York Times, page 5:He described the thug as a very ugly and wicked-looking man, with a face that "would stop a clock".
1927, “Editorial Comment: Thinking Statistically”, in Educational Research Bulletin, volume 6, number 7, page 142:We realize that all women are fair only in theory and that if we arranged them in the order of fairness we should have at one end the face that launched a thousand ships and at the other end the face that would stop a clock.
2004 July 4, Barbara Hall, “Bookwise: Questions”, in Sunday Times, UK, retrieved 5 July 2008:Archie was an artist, finely chiselled, "the type girls go for like catnip." He . . . was expected to marry an American heiress. But she loved a muscular curate with a face that would stop a clock.
- (idiomatic) A shockingly attractive face.
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