BS: Simile : Rough as . . . ?

Subject: BS: Simile : Rough as . . . ?
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 07:34 AM

I know of three :

. . . a bear's arse ;

. . . a split clog [my own favourite :-)]

. . . a duck's chuff.

Any others ?

Subject: RE: BS: Simile : Rough as . . . ?
From: MartinRyan
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 08:01 AM

I've heard that first one localised in Ireland as ".... a badger's arse"!

Regards

Subject: RE: BS: Simile : Rough as . . . ?
From: Bobert
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 08:06 AM

Rough as a cob (as in corn)...

Subject: RE: BS: Simile : Rough as . . . ?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 08:07 AM

...guts.

Which makes no sense at all, but it's a common expression in New Zealand.

Subject: RE: BS: Simile : Rough as . . . ?
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 08:08 AM

a cat's tongue.

Subject: RE: BS: Simile : Rough as . . . ?
From: Micca
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 08:09 AM

.....Old Boots is the most used I've heard(usually describing a person
.....2 miles of country road
.....Sunday morning after Scrumpy

Subject: RE: BS: Simile : Rough as . . . ?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 08:31 AM

In the 1960's 'As rough as scrumpy' .... scrumpy was the 'roughest ' of rough cider. Health and safety have taken its roughness away.... shame I say !!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Simile : Rough as . . . ?
From: theleveller
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 08:43 AM

"Old Boots is the most used I've heard(usually describing a person"

It's always been 'TOUGH as old boots' where I come from (usually used to describe meat).

The term 'rough as you are' is used to temper a compliment, as in 'you're a good lad, rough as you are'.

Subject: RE: BS: Simile : Rough as . . . ?
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 09:46 AM

...barbed wire toilet paper.
...ten miles of bad road.
...a steel saddle.

Subject: RE: BS: Simile : Rough as . . . ?
From: frogprince
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 01:00 PM

...a porcupine sandwich...

Subject: RE: BS: Simile : Rough as . . . ?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 01:28 PM

...a vulture's crutch

...a bear's bollocks

Subject: RE: BS: Simile : Rough as . . . ?
From: kendall
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 01:58 PM

Rough as a Maine road in the spring. (Pot holes caused by freezing and thawing)

Subject: RE: BS: Simile : Rough as . . . ?
From: gnu
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 02:53 PM

.... shoving butter up a bobcat's ass with a red hot poker. (My Dad was a poet.)

Subject: RE: BS: Simile : Rough as . . . ?
From: bill\sables
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 05:15 PM

Rough as a witches arse where I come from

Subject: RE: BS: Simile : Rough as . . . ?
From: EBarnacle
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 05:21 PM

salted ice

Subject: RE: BS: Simile : Rough as . . . ?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 05:55 PM

Bobert's right, said like this: "That road along the river's just rougher'n a cob".

Subject: RE: BS: Simile : Rough as . . . ?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 05:58 PM

rough as a carpenter's hands or lumberjack's chin (unshaven)

Subject: RE: BS: Simile : Rough as . . . ?
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 06:05 PM

"Rough as a sack of gravel"

"Rough as a shale sandwich"

Subject: RE: BS: Simile : Rough as . . . ?
From: Lox
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 06:46 PM

Rough as f***

Subject: RE: BS: Simile : Rough as . . . ?
From: Dave Roberts
Date: 07 Nov 09 - 03:22 PM

Here now is the result from the Middlewich jury:

...a bear's arse.

- which is where we came in.

I regret to report that in this part of Cheshire the term is usually used to describe a female considered to be unattractive.

Sorry, but there it is.

Subject: RE: BS: Simile : Rough as . . . ?
From: akenaton
Date: 07 Nov 09 - 03:59 PM

Badgers arse....in West of Scotland just like Martin.

Subject: RE: BS: Simile : Rough as . . . ?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 08 Nov 09 - 06:21 AM

Conversely I have heard the term 'smooth as a crocodiles chin' - I have never tried stroking a crocodile under the chin so I would not know if it was true.

DeG

Subject: RE: BS: Simile : Rough as . . . ?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 08 Nov 09 - 12:56 PM

Rough as barnacles on a banister!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Simile : Rough as . . . ?
From: GUEST,Paul
Date: 08 Nov 09 - 03:59 PM

Rough as a bear's arse seems to be favourite, but it begs the questions:-

1 Who first found out that a bear's arse is rough?
2 What was he / she doing at the time?

Subject: RE: BS: Simile : Rough as . . . ?
From: Smokey.
Date: 08 Nov 09 - 09:49 PM

Rough as a tallyman's knuckles.
Rough as buggery.