tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-14:61366 jack jack 2013-11-18T22:24:01Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-14:61366:870212 2013-11-18T22:24:01Z 2013-11-18T22:24:01Z public 3 If you hear someone described as a "clothes horse", does that mean "well dressed"? Or "expensively dressed"? Or "expensively but badly dressed"? Or "badly dressed"?<br /><br />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!<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jack&ditemid=870212" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments