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Meanings of ugly duckling in English

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Usage of ugly duckling in English
1
And they did make themselves at home-allbut the poor ugly duckling.
The Child's World: Third Reader
2
They swam about very easily, and the ugly duckling swam with them.
The Child's World: Third Reader
3
But the poor, big, ugly duckling did not have a good time.
A Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold...
4
I was different, with him, transformed from ugly duckling to snowy swan.
The Storyteller
5
Never an ugly duckling, it had matured into an especially attractive swan.
The Irish Times
6
Snow and sleet fell, and the ugly duckling had a very unhappy time.
The Child's World: Third Reader
7
At last it broke, and out came a big, ugly duckling.
A Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold...
8
Indeed, King's robotic lab assistant is something of an ugly duckling.
Wired
9
My dear, that did not succeed with the ugly duckling, even in early life.
Magnum Bonum; Or, Mother Carey's Brood
10
The ugly duckling was shy and at first hid his head under his wing.
The Child's World: Third Reader
11
The ugly duckling, as Uncle Brian called her, was fast changing into a swan.
Uncle Max
12
I'm the ugly duckling who right from the start always knows he's a swan.
Black is the new white
13
Henrik had been right in his description of Julia as the family's ugly duckling.
The ice princess
14
Especially, she admitted, for someone who'd spent thirty years feeling like an ugly duckling.
In Enemy Hands
15
And so for us, we actually gravitate towards, we call it an ugly duckling.
The new yorker
16
Tropicana is a swan fashioned from an ugly duckling just behind the Hotel Deauville.
The Guardian
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Ugly duckling through the time
Ugly duckling across language varieties
United Kingdom
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United States of America
Common