bag of weasels
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.53 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Something that has pronounced weaselly characteristics, such as pettiness, bad temper, and deviousness.
Informal
Example Sentences
- "When she entered the kitchen matters were going on as usual — her mother bustling in glorious style, and as cross (her husband muttered) "as a bag of weasels.""
- "Ciril Usage was jist about as crass a crayther as you could find in a bag of weasels; but Charley, to himself be tould it, was a funny rogue, an' could take his weight out of any body he met; an' may be he didn't keep “Civil Usage” an' the women in other's hair the whole road."
- "Skulduggery mainly, but not exclusively, in the front row, 1966 & 1990s 'Props are as crafty as a bag of weasels,' as Bill McLaren famously said."
- "There was still time for Sergio Ramos, as devious as a bag of weasels, to help engineer Cuadrado’s second yellow card with a bout of pretend agony but Madrid’s second-half performance had a lot more good than bad."