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pocilga femininechiquero masculine Latin Americathis house is a pigsty! — ¡esta casa está hecha un chiquero! Latin America- Surely, they have a right to more than pigsties for living space?
- But they didn't know what was frowned upon by society, obviously, because they're house was a pigsty.
- I missed my pigsty of a room, the drone of football practice after school, and everything else that had, before, made my life a living nightmare.
- Not that my place is a pigsty but putting things away that have lingered on tables for a little while is a necessity I feel for a number of guests like this.
- ‘Have fun cleaning your dump,’ laughed Treena knowing what a pigsty Pheobe's room usually is.
- Tons of work to do and my house is turning into a pigsty.
- Fussy Felix is a neat-freak whose wife has just thrown him out of their house, and Oscar is a placid slob who has wallowed in his pigsty apartment ever since his divorce.
- Marie had insisted on tidying up Dylan's room, she said that it was worse than a pigsty.
- Their house is a virtual pigsty of junk, either for sale or as part of Fred's personal collection.
- The house was a pigsty and we tried to do all we could to make things better.
- It treads a fine line between being a traditional boozer and a downright dirty pigsty.
- Then, he refers to the Holbrooks as animals and to their house as a pigsty.
- I smacked him in the head and went hunting for some clothes to wear in the junk-infested pigsty he called his room.
- If you want to live in a pigsty then don't do anything with your house, but if you want to make it nice for yourself you get penalised.
- He said the house was a pigsty, the biggest mess ever.
- Rubbing my eyes, I tossed on a T-shirt that was about three sizes too big and a pair of cargo capris, pulling my hair into a ragged ponytail as I left my pigsty of a room.
- Maybe she could move in with her brother, but remembering what a pigsty her brother's house is, she knew she'd be left to pick up after his mess.
- I'm a terrible mess and create a pigsty wherever I go.
- It's a bit like saying you continue to live in a pigsty because no one comes to visit your house.
- He likes to be organised - ‘the boys tease me about it, but it helps’ - and his peg is a picture of neatness next to Ricky Ponting's pigsty in the dressing room.
Further reading
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