Definition
A shockingly unattractive face.
A shockingly attractive face.
In Context
- "He described the thug as a very ugly and wicked-looking man, with a face that "would stop a clock"."
- "We realize that all women are fair only in theory and that if we arranged them in the order of fairness we should have at one end the face that launched a thousand ships and at the other end the face that would stop a clock."
- "Archie was an artist, finely chiselled, "the type girls go for like catnip." He . . . was expected to marry an American heiress. But she loved a muscular curate with a face that would stop a clock."
- "Hey darlin' I can remember when you could stop a clock."