no prize pig

English

Noun

no prize pig

1. (litotes) Said of a person who is decidedly unattractive or undesirable.
   • 2011, Richard Zelade, Lone Star Travel Guide to Central Texas, page 274:

     Jeptha Billingsley, who was no prize pig himself (he had been arrested for horse theft and assault with intent to murder), was to be taught a lesson, and the vigilantes made him cut down the McLemores.

   • 2012, R. Evans Pansing, Fact and Fiction: Fiction and Reality, page 29:

     After all Charlotte Arlene Hoggstett was no prize pig herself.

See also

• no spring chicken