Bald as a coot

Bald as a coot
Лыс как колено

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  • bald as a coot — A person who is completely bald is as bald as a coot …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • bald as a coot — see under ↑coot1 • • • Main Entry: ↑bald …   Useful english dictionary

  • bald as a coot —    A person who is completely bald is as bald as a coot.   (Dorking School Dictionary) …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • Bald as a coot —   A person who is completely bald is as bald as a coot …   Dictionary of English idioms

  • bald as a coot — totally bald …   English contemporary dictionary

  • bald as a coot —  Entirely bald …   A concise dictionary of English slang

  • be as bald as a coot — humorous to be completely bald (= having no hair on your head). Then he took off his hat and he was as bald as a coot …   New idioms dictionary

  • (as) bald as a coot — idiom (BrE, informal) completely bald Main entry: ↑baldidiom …   Useful english dictionary

  • as bald as a coot — Meaning Completely bald. Origin Coots are water birds whose white head colouring give them the appearance of baldness. ref: Brewer s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 15th edition …   Meaning and origin of phrases

  • Coot — For other uses, see Coot (disambiguation). Coots Eurasian Coot Scientific classification Kingdom …   Wikipedia

  • coot, you old —    A friendly insult, comparing the person addressed (usually a man) to the water bird known as a coot, or more accurately, to one of the several birds loosely known by this name. One of them is bald, hence the proverbial ‘bald as a coot’. One is …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address


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