like a fishwife

She got a face like a fishwife looking for a fight.

"I'm sorry I stood on the pavement and abused you like a fishwife," she said.

'A woman talking about hell fire would just sound like a fishwife.

Had she dared she would have sworn like a fishwife.

"I must have gabbled like a fishwife last night."

"And I was just like a fishwife yelling and screaming.

I will haggle like a fishwife, if need be."

Except on that one occasion when she lost her temper and shouted at him like a fishwife in front of her husband.

"You shouted at them like a fishwife."

She was examining Petra like a fishwife rating mullet.

"I'm happy to tell you I've won three matches today, but I'm playing like a fishwife right now."

I'd get fat like a fishwife.

"Don't move your buttocks; you look like a fishwife walking down Billingsgate Hill!"

Yelled at me like a fishwife.

I had to screech and bawl like a fishwife to shift him: oh Lord!'

I insulted her intelligence and her maturity, and she screamed like a fishwife.

Tumbled in a heap on damp grass, she cursed like a fishwife and sucked skinned knuckles.

Annabelle had screamed like a fishwife at Mary when she innocently dirtied his shirt with her ice cream.

Screaming like a fishwife, cging, for God's sake.

I was on my way home from aerobics class and was dropping off a scarf I'd knitted you like a fishwife doormat.

She was not silent as she stormed through the door, waving a bloodstained piece of paper, but cursing like a fishwife.

I saw myself at forty-a welfairy-screaming like a fishwife and with a whole tribe of grubby little kids hanging on to me.

Phillis shook Rab like a fishwife.