Sentence examples for like mutton from inspiring English sources

Shearwaters, a type of muttonbird, also called yolla or moonbird, are harvested for food (the meat tastes like mutton), feathers for mattress fill, and the omega-3 rich oil, which is squeezed out of the birds' guts, for medicinal use.

I reckon it'll stop me looking like mutton dressed as lamb when I'm 40.

At first sight, the Hoxton looks like mutton dressed as glam.

But I'm 34, and realise that I could look like mutton dressed as lamb.

I'm influenced by how the models dress, but I adapt it so I don't look like mutton dressed as lamb.

But don't even think about going for all of the above at once; dressed in sheepskin from head to toe you'll look like mutton dressed as lamb.

Draw stem-like mutton chops (upper left), a roundish beard with an even larger patch of skin than in the previous set (upper right), a mustache with ruffled edges (lower left), and a handle-like edging around the cheeks and chin (lower right).

They even managed to throw in elements of Lee Hazelwoodesque country noir without coming over like mutton-chopped Midlands hicks clodhopping around working men's clubs on Nashville night.

Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine".

(A total stranger? Is in my apartment? Stroking my foliage and nattering on about chlorophyll?) Second, the Veggietrading vibe is the opposite of cutthroat: once the initial fizz of Mira's and my meeting each other and establishing that we were both attractive, young, creative West Villagers who liked esoteric mutton-tasting flora had dissipated, I had to persuade her to let me pay for her plants.

No doubt, I think, I'm going to come across in these photos like bald mutton dressed as gigot d'agneau, like a try-hard who should not have ideas above his station.