She got a slap wit de ugly stick

exp.

Heard in Kerry

Said of an unfortunate woman whose features suggest she has been struck with an implement designed to confer ugliness.

She got a slap wit de ugly stick

Posh English

The poor lady appears to have been struck rather forcefully by an implement of singularly unbecoming appearance.

Related terms

• Got a slap of the ugly stickAn unattractive person, especially one considered to have been rendered so by a notional…
• Ugly stickComment on someone who is not exactly a beauty queen.
• If wit was shit you'd be constipated!An insult suggesting the target lacks wit or intelligence.
• Fall off the ugly treeTo be extremely ugly.
• Fell from the ugly tree and bate off every branchExtremely ugly; worse than merely having fallen from the ugly tree.
• Got a slap of the no.3 busCalling someone really ugly; extremely unattractive.