Clothes Horse
Nov. 18th, 2013 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackIf you hear someone described as a "clothes horse", does that mean "well dressed"? Or "expensively dressed"? Or "expensively but badly dressed"? Or "badly dressed"?
It's the sort of usage I normally pick up from reading books, but I've often found the usage ambiguous, and I can see the metaphor both ways round, so it's not obvious to me, even though I feel it should be self-evident!
It's the sort of usage I normally pick up from reading books, but I've often found the usage ambiguous, and I can see the metaphor both ways round, so it's not obvious to me, even though I feel it should be self-evident!