couldn't stop a pig in a passage
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.86 in modern English
36
Scrabble Score
25
Letters
4
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To be bow-legged.
Example Sentences
- "Joe laughed. ‘Aye, I know I'm a funny little feller. I couldn't stop a pig in a passage, could I lass? But I'm good at me job, else Eddie wouldn't have asked me to come and look at that there roof.’"
- "I remember seeing old ladies with incredible bowlegs caused by rickets. Unkind folks would remark ‘They couldn't stop a pig in a passage’."
- "And he's got funny-looking legs from all the football he plays; talk about bowed legs! Couldn't stop a pig in a passage, that one."