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like a small-time gangster with a painful gum-boil
‘How did he look?’ she asked, all eagerness.
It was a little difficult to answer this, because he had looked like a small-time gangster with a painful gum-boil, but I threw together a tactful word or two which, as Jeeves would say, gave satisfaction, and she buzzed off.
—PG Wodehouse, Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen