look like sth the cat dragged / brought in

look like sth the cat dragged / brought in BrE informalto look very dirty or untidy衣衫褴褛; 脏乱不堪⇒raining cats and dogs at RAIN² (1)⇒there's not enough room to swing a cat at ROOM¹ (5)

• bar diggings
• long-range
• fit sb for sth
• hollow-forge
• beeker
• one-to-many correspondence
• fancy-schmancy
• thrombectomy
• Amorites
• postal stationery
• nuclear attack
• bog lake
• inner-directtion
• rub ... out
• TL dating
• boondy
• mountain-gap wind
• datednesses
• isocrat
• get（或have）the jump on someone
• Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins
• fidgety
• horsebacks
• bandsmen
• lobster pots
• high-water
• aurelias
• pasties
• brominations
• capriciously
• discussible
• acidifyings
• countercheck
• hit like a ton of bricks
• mazaedia
• hold a suggestion of
• tobogganed
• funiculus
• elastic currency
• legals
• plastometer
• mesa transistor
• united nations days
• overwinds
• Nasmyth's membrane
• pil-
• parapoxviruses
• bethink
• bowsmen
• that's news to me!
• up to here
• electromagnetic clutch
• halliards
• simoom
• re-elected
• depreciation reserve
• freeze one's tail off
• Canadianization
• alhambras
• chironomids
• quite a bit
• Jansen, Cornelis Otto
• self-possessedly
• soft coal
• Montreal, Montreal
• sharksucker
• dear old/little…
• ugly
• air-drying
• unhoped
• repurchase
• lenticels
• thymidine kinase
• thermo-magnetism
• machine element
• go for a bathe
• hyperparasitism
• high-tension wires / cables etc
• profit distribution
• danish krones
• Mennonist
• never mind
• horned shark
• godivas
• J particle
• el pasoes
• blowhard
• hallucinant
• personal equation
• trismuses
• Hellenisation
• anagrammatisms
• take sb/sth in tow
• pull strength
• spin-scan
• paracaisson
• help sb off with
• riproaring
• empty out
• police special