odious as a toad

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odious as a toad (not comparable)

1. (archaic, simile) Very odious; hateful.
   • 1680, The History of the Damnable Popish Plot, in Its Various Branches & Progress:

     And we have already rendred our irreconcileable Enemy the Duke of Buckingham as odious as a Toad.

   • 1762, Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review - Volume 32, page 494:

     E'en to a Rat he favour show'd, To some as odious as a toad : To him for bread it often came, ( For kindness can all creatures tame)

   • 2011, Alice Walker, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, →ISBN:

     How fear, self-condemnation, guilt and joy flushed through her as she hastily pushed Brownfield away; pushed him away as if he were as odious as a toad, as inconsequential as some kind of harmless lizard.