odious as a toad

adj

odious as a toad

adj

1

Archaic Very odious; hateful.

And we have already rendred our irreconcileable Enemy the Duke of Buckingham as odious as a Toad.1680, The History of the Damnable Popish Plot, in Its Various Branches & Progress:
E'en to a Rat he favour show'd, To some as odious as a toad : To him for bread it often came, ( For kindness can all creatures tame)1762, Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review - Volume 32, page 494:

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How fear, self-condemnation, guilt and joy flushed through her as she hastily pushed Brownfield away; pushed him away as if he were as odious as a toad, as inconsequential as some kind of harmless lizard.2011, Alice Walker, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, →ISBN:

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