bigger than life (and twice as ugly)
- bigger than life (and twice as ugly)
*big as life (and twice as ugly) & *large as life (and twice as ugly) & bigger than life (and twice as ugly)
Cliché a colorful way of saying that a person or a thing appeared, often surprisingly or dramatically, in a particular place. (*Also:
as \bigger than life (and twice as ugly).) •
The little child just stood there as big as life and laughed very hard.
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I opened the door, and there was Tom as large as life.
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I came home and found this cat in my chair, as big as life and twice as ugly.
Dictionary of American idioms.
2013.
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