mutton dressed as lamb



mutton dressed (up) as lamb

  (British informal)
an offensive way of saying that a woman is dressed in a style that is more suitable for a much younger woman Do you think this skirt is too short? I don't want to look like mutton dressed as lamb.
See also: dress, lamb, mutton

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Federicofe-dhe-REE-ko (Spanish), fe-de-REE-ko (Italian)Spanish, Italian
Goizane-Basque
Joaquima-Catalan
Aslan-Turkish, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Chechen, Ingush
KikeKEE-keSpanish
ŠImon-Czech, Slovak