“The beaver went at it with a dull apprentice”

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Appearance; beaten up and scratched to FRIG. Looks good from afar but far from good. Typically in reference to surface scratches, injection mould tooling marks, etc.

A phrasial spoonerism of “the apprentice went at it with a dull beaver”

See also: Apprentice Marks, Dull Beaver

Submitted by: Conor Brady