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The phrase "a sewer of a" is not standard in written English and may be considered incorrect or awkward.
It can be used informally to describe something or someone as very unpleasant or undesirable, often in a derogatory manner.
Example: "This place is a sewer of a restaurant; the food is terrible and the service is worse."
Alternatives: "a dump of a" or "a mess of a".
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Within Caracas, the main roadway follows the Río Guaire, a sewer of a river that runs through the Caracas Valley, both connecting and dividing the city's three and a half million people — the caraqueños, as they are called.
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A plan to police the French capital with an "incivility brigade" has opened a sewer of schadenfreude as the British media portray the city as a "post-apocalyptic hellhole".
Mr Poroshenko plans an early parliamentary election, another positive step, since the Rada, Ukraine's parliament, is a sewer of oligarchs' placemen.More useful than a chocolate fireguardThe big drawback is that Mr Poroshenko, a confectionery billionaire, is himself an oligarch, as well as being a veteran of the self-serving political struggles that have left Ukraine in this mess.
Today, polygamy is described by its detractors as a sewer of child abuse and welfare fraud.
It is also unspeakably vile, a sewer of vulgarity, greed and architectural short-termism.
First Mr. Havel talked about a national "bad mood" and an overflowing "sewer" of corruption at a time when Mr. Klaus said everything was fine.
The committee examined e-mails, telephone records and letters that provided a rare road map into a chic sewer of money and influence, a far cry from the salacious bodice-ripper peddled by Kenneth Starr.
Steinberg spent his first 19 years in Romania, a primitive and repugnant "sewer" of a country, as he liked to say.
They have also been used as definitive proof of the astonishing revival of the Thames, from the filthy open sewer of a few decades ago to a gleaming playground for wildlife.
Hardly, since it is set against the downside construct of the scene in Trainspotting where our hero dives into a sewer for a nub end of skunk or some fine thing.
Having just lit up the MGM Grand on the Floyd Mayweather undercard with a dazzling display to outpoint Carlos Molina, the man of God with a sewer for a mouth told ring announcer Jim Gray, "Anybody Can get it.
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