homely as a hedge fence

Meaning: (chieflyUS,dated,idiomatic)Having no physicallyattractivecharacteristics, but notblatantlyugly; veryplainin appearance.1850October 7, "A Trifling Mistake,"The Adams Sentinal(Gettysbury, Pennsylvania),p. 1 (Google news archive)"I must have a husband!" said Miss Crooks, "what shall I do? Here I am hard upon my 25th year, and they say I am ashomely as a hedge fenceto boot! what shall I do?"1988December, Denise McCluggage, "Top Snow Country Vehicles,"Snow Country Magazine,p. 71 (Google preview)(retrieved 7 April 2019):This Subaru station wagon was ashomely as a hedge fenceand cramped as a corn crib, but it was the immediate hit of every ski town in the country.2008July 12, Anna Mundow, “Legends of Troy”, inIrish Times, retrieved7 April 2019:"Louise had been sweet-tempered buthomely as a hedge fence," Charlotte observes, "[…]pools of wrinkles widened out over her face like somebody had thrown a pebble in it."

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