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rough diamond
noun
a genuinely good person who is nevertheless unrefined in manners AUSTRALIA, 1907- He was a fine old chap, much appreciated by the rest of us all–a genuine rough diamond. I have met many men who posed in an effort to earn this distinction but they only succeeded in being “rough” and were minus the attributes of the “diamond”. — J.P. Osbourne, Nine Crowded Years, p. 182, 1921
- — Leonard Mann, Flesh in Armour, p. 193, 1932
- I’m afraid you’ll have to take my people as you find them, Helen. Jack’s a bit of a rough diamond[.] — George Johnston, My Brother Jack, p. 224, 1964
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