look as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards (English, verb)
expansion: look as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards (third-person singular simple present looks as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards, present participle looking as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards, simple past and past participle looked as if one had been dragged through a hedge backwards)
Senses:
qualifier: simile
glosses: To look extremely dishevelled.
tags: British
humorous
informal
intransitive
Forms:
form: looks as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: looking as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards
tags: participle
present
form: looked as if one had been dragged through a hedge backwards
tags: participle
past
form: looked as if one had been dragged through a hedge backwards
tags: past