On Fri, 08 Jul 2016 21:38:14 +0100, John Rumm wrote:

On 08/07/2016 18:51, Johnny B Good wrote:
On Fri, 08 Jul 2016 09:41:11 +0100, John Rumm wrote:

Rather like describing an old common rail diesel engine as sounding
like a "wardrobe falling down the stairs".

I'd have guessed that a better simile might be:

a "wardrobe full of spanners falling down the stairs". :-)

Or the way of describing someone not particularly attractive as having a
"face like a bag of spanners".

That sounds just like the sort of simile Les Dawson would have used.
Indeed I think he did use exactly that simile (BICBW).

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Johnny B Good