big as a house


Physically large, overweight, said of a person in an unflat- tering  way, as  in I  saw  Marion  the  other  day  and  shes  gotten  as  big  as  a house. Why a house should have been chosen as a simile for a large person
is not clear, but it has been so used for a very long time.

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