look like something the cat dragged in

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Etymology

From the habit of domestic cats of bringing home the remains of killed animals.

Verb

look like something the cat dragged in (third-person singular simple present looks like something the cat dragged in, present participle looking like something the cat dragged in, simple past and past participle looked like something the cat dragged in)

(simile) To have a very dishevelled or untidy appearance.
Synonym: look as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards

Usage notes

Not to be confused with look what the cat's dragged in.

Further reading

Eric Partridge (2005) “something the cat dragged in; something the cat has brought in”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volumes 1 (A–I), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 355.

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