only a mother could love

短语

英文释义

短语
  1. Used to describe someone or something very unlovable or repulsive.
    — There was an interesting face beneath the spots, I thought as I looked at him, but at the moment at which fate rang our doorbell it was still a face only a mother could love, which was a problem for the boy on our doorstep.

词源

From the instinctual love that a mother has for her offspring.
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