(Forty/Seven) miles of bad road

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   DARE has "forty miles of bad road" from 1970 for "an unattractive person or sight."


(PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS)
  PEPPER and Salt; Wall Street Journal (1889-Current file), New York, N.Y.; Mar 29, 1927; pg. 2, 1 pgs
("_Unpaved_    An odd simile was used recently by a young motorist in speaking of a very plain-looking girl.  'She looks,' he said, 'like seven miles of bad road.'")